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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Curricula     Enterprise Database Systems Solution Area     Big Data     Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics provides a way to turn the vast amounts of data available in today's digital world into valuable insights. For this reason, big data analytics techniques have taken a central place in many businesses' IT infrastructure. These comprise complex processes and multiple stack layers that allow you to transform raw data into visualizations that demonstrate trends or other phenomena.
Use this course to explore the basic principles and techniques of big data analytics in a business context. Go through each step of data processing to fully comprehend the big data analytics pipeline. Furthermore, explore various use cases of big data analytics through real-world examples.
When you're done with this course, you'll have a foundational comprehension of some of the technologies behind big data and how these can drive business decisions for the better.

Objectives

Big Data Analytics: Techniques for Big Data Analytics

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • describe the challenges in the current data analytics models and system designs, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability
  • name and describe the role of the main layers of big data analytics, from the bottom all the way to the top
  • specify why unstructured data comes from variable sources and describe how it moves from its origin to storage and gets further analyzed and visualized
  • define the role of the data processing layer and specify how information captured in the previous layer is processed
  • define the role of the data storage layer using HDFS as an example of commonly used primary data storage
  • outline the main pillars and components of big data architecture
  • describe batch processing, its use cases, and common reasons for using it
  • outline how stream processing enables quick decision-making by creating actionable real-time insights
  • define the concept of Lambda architecture and outline its use cases
  • define the concept of Kappa architecture and outline its use cases
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course