Re:Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
by suhair on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:55AM
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Introduction to Hadoop and Mapreduce course seems to have the right amount of content. It could be completed in one sitting and content is polished, well presented , and easy to grasp. Respect to Cloudera faculty. As an added bonus, uses python instead of java for examples.
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Re:Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
by Littleme on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:13PM
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Thanks. We chose Python because it's a little more approachable for many people that Java, and is the language used in Udacity's Comp Sci 101 course. Also, using Hadoop Streaming saved us from having to explain a bunch of concepts such as WritableComparables, InputFormats etc that would just have got in the way of the basic MapReduce principles.