Course : Big Data: Practical methods and solutions for data analysis

Big Data: Practical methods and solutions for data analysis

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This course will enable you to understand the issues and benefits of Big Data as well as the technologies to implement it. You'll learn how to integrate massive volumes of structured and unstructured data via an ETL, then to analyze them using statistical models and dynamic dashboards.


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This course will enable you to understand the issues and benefits of Big Data as well as the technologies to implement it. You'll learn how to integrate massive volumes of structured and unstructured data via an ETL, then to analyze them using statistical models and dynamic dashboards.

Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
  • Understand the concepts and benefits of Big Data with respect to business challenges
  • Understand the technological ecosystem needed to carry out a Big Data project
  • Acquire the technical skills to manage massive, unstructured, complex data flows
  • Implement statistical analysis models to address business needs
  • Learn about a data visualization tool for reporting dynamic analyses

Intended audience
Dataminers, statistical researchers, developers, project managers, business intelligence consultants.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of relational models, statistics, and programming languages. Basic knowledge of Business Intelligence concepts.

Course schedule

Understanding the concepts and challenges of Big Data

  • Origins and definition of Big Data.
  • Key figures in the international and French markets.
  • The challenges of Big Data: ROI, organization, data privacy.
  • An example of Big Data architecture.

Big Data technologies

  • Description of the architecture and components of the Hadoop platform.
  • Storage methods (NoSQL, HDFS).
  • Operating principles of MapReduce, Spark, Storm, etc.
  • Most popular distributions on the market (Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR, Elastic Map Reduce, Biginsights).
  • Installing a Hadoop platform.
  • Technologies for the data scientist.
Exercise
Exercise

Installing a Hadoop Big Data platform (via Cloudera Quickstart or other software).

  • Operating principles of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
  • Importing outside data into HDFS.
  • Creating SQL requests with HIVE.
  • Using PIG to process the data.
  • Using an ETL to industrialize the creation of massive data flows.
  • Overview of Talend For Big Data.
Exercise
Operating principles of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

Importing outside data into HDFS.

  • Creating SQL requests with HIVE.
  • Using PIG to process the data.
  • The principle of ETL (Talend, etc.).
  • Managing massive data streaming (NIFI, Kafka, Spark, Storm, etc.)
Exercise
Implementing massive data flows

Big Data Analytics techniques and methods

  • Machine Learning: A component of artificial intelligence.
  • Discovering the three families: Regression, Classification, and Clustering.
  • Data preparation, feature engineering.
  • Generating models in R or Python.
  • Ensemble Learning.
Exercise
Exercise

Setting up analyses with the tools studied.

  • Takeaways.
  • Summary of best practices.
  • Bibliography.


Practical details
Hands-on work
Set up a Hadoop platform and its basic components, use an ETL to manage the data, create analysis modules and dashboards.

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