Certificate in Advanced Big Data and Data Analytics (CABDDA)

Big data is a change agent that challenges the ways in which organizational leaders have traditionally made decisions. This course provides participants with the confidence to store, process, analyze and present big data use cases within their organizations. This course provides a multitude of hands-on labs with Spark, a key big data technology used to solve data intensive problems. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills they need to assemble and manage a large-scale big data analytics project. Lastly, participants will work through advanced machine learning and deep learning use cases.

This is our most advanced course in our big data series following Certified Big Data and Data Analytics Practitioner (CBDDAP) and Certificate in Big Data Fundamentals (CBDF). Participants will aim to identify areas within their organization that can be improved through big data use cases, and work on an individual chosen data project during the course. By the end of the course, participants will be able to work through multiple methods and practical approaches to leverage Spark for advanced big data analytics.

This course will be highly technical with group discussions, hands-on practical exercises, and group activities being the core focus.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand key big data technologies, including a deep dive into Apache Spark
• Describe the main challenges and advantages of Hadoop map-reduce
• Demonstrate and discuss key technologies for big data storage and compute, such as PostgreSQL and object storage
• Discuss popular machine learning algorithms, deep learning techniques and the importance of ethics in data analytics and artificial intelligence
• Deliver a presentation demonstrating the analytics lifecycle and Spark

This is an advanced level course.  It is expected that participants either have a number of years of experience utilizing big data, or have previously attended the Certified Big Data and Data Analytics Practitioner (CBDDAP) course.  This course is ideal for data engineers, AI engineers and data scientists.  Recommended pre-knowledge includes some python programming experience and data visualization practice.  

• Big data utilization
• Big data analytics structures and technologies
• Ethics and integrity for big data and AI development
• Big data storage
• Apache Spark best practices