Some time has passed since I started working on Big Data topics and although the Internet is a great source of information I often feel the need to get some formal training and even a certification. Big Data is still emerging and there aren’t too much choices if you are looking for some training especially in Europe.
However, I managed to find both vendor related and independent trainings on different levels on knowledge and specialization. Maybe the next person that searches the web for trainings will benefit from this and will not lose endless hours in search for some good training.
The course specializations that I found are: Administration, Developer, Data Science. Here are the trainings I found, and my personal opinion of them:
Hortonworks (100% Opensource Hadoop Distribution):
Developing Solutions for Data Analysts – US & UK locations, 4days training, aprox. 3000$
Hadoop Essentials – Only Live Online, 1day, aprox. 700$
Administering Apache Hadoop – US & Germany (only attend if you understand German), 3days, aprox 2000$
Appling Data Science with Hadoop – Only US, 2 days, aprox. 2300$
Developing Hadoop Apps with Java – US, UK, Online, aprox. 3000$
Cloudera University (Sponsored by Cloudera, a proprietary Hadoop Distribution): Multiple US and Europe locations, ask in advance for the language of the course. The price also varies, even for the same course in different locations.
Developer Training – 4 days
Administrator Training – 4 days
Data Analyst Training – 3 days
HBase Training – 4 days
Hadoop Essentials – 1 day
MindShare is a company that offers a training In Austin TX it’s completely vendor independent but I don’t have any feedback on the quality of their training. Price is 3000$ and the training takes 4 days.
New Circle Academy offers training for technical and non-technical attendees. The most interesting to me seemed Hadoop Ecosystem Training Course and Hadoop Online Admin+Develop. The course is classroom based and also online, so if getting to US is a problem for you can join the online classroom.
BigData Training.in offers some interesting courses from which BigData Hadoop Architect FastTrack seem particular interesting to me. The thing is that the training takes place in India and I’m not a big fan of that and also the price isn’t displayed anywhere.
Third eye classes are taking place in US: Ney York City or Irvine, CA, but the course only takes two days so if you are not from around these places it might be too much of a burden to travel the distance for just 2 days training. The price is 1350$ as early bird and 1400$ at door.
There are also a lot of providers for trainings that if you are working in the IT world you must of heard of, but their trainings are strictly related to the product they offer so they are not a very good match for me. However, these are some of them and their Big Data products: IBM – Big Insights; HP – Vertica, HAVEn; EMC – Greenplum, PivotalHD; Oracle Exalytics, MapR, Intel etc.
If you have attended any of those course I’ve mentioned tell me your feedback, or if you discovered any other courses let’s complete together the list.
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