Big Data Courses and Certifications

The ASF

Architecting Applications with Multiple Open-Source Big Data Technologies

Lessons from building and scaling realistic demonstration applications across diverse domains with multiple open-source Big Data technologies.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Complete Big Data

1 rating

Introduces Hadoop through Linux setup, command-line practice, HDFS design, NameNode architecture, and YARN.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center

27 ratings at Coursera

Analyze LINCS perturbation data: use metadata and ontologies, RESTful APIs, data normalization, clustering, gene-set enrichment analysis, supervised learning, and interactive web visualization.

• Coursera
• 14 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

大數據分析：商業應用與策略管理 (Big Data Analytics: Business Applications and Strategic Decisions)

414 ratings at Coursera

以金融、行銷與社群媒體案例，介紹大數據分析如何支援商業決策與銀行轉型。

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Cloud Computing

2078 ratings at Coursera

Tour cloud systems layer by layer: distributed systems concepts inside clouds, cloud applications and big data infrastructure, cloud networking, and a capstone project applying it all.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Coursera

Data Management with Databricks: Big Data with Delta Lakes

32 ratings at Coursera

Build Delta Tables in Databricks: write and transform data with Python, query with SQL, and use merge operations and version control for a supply chain dashboard.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Working with DataFrames in PySpark

Work with PySpark DataFrames to load, clean, join, manipulate, and export large datasets across multiple formats.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Performing SQL Operations with PySpark

Use SQL with PySpark to query data, build joins, inspect execution plans, and extend workflows with user-defined functions.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Big Data

Build end-to-end ML pipelines with PySpark ML: train supervised, unsupervised and recommendation models, apply NLP at scale, and integrate deep learning and LLMs into big data workflows.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

LearnKartS

Database, Big Data, and DevOps Services in GCP

Manage structured data with Cloud SQL and Spanner, analyze big datasets with BigQuery and Dataflow, and automate deployments using Cloud Build, Deployment Manager, and Kubernetes Engine.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Advanced Machine Learning, Big Data, and Deep Learning

Apply advanced machine learning: K-Nearest Neighbors and PCA, Apache Spark MLLib on big data, A/B testing, and CNNs and RNNs with TensorFlow and Keras.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Big Data Analysis to a Slide Presentation

This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. This lab leverages two Google developer platforms: G Suite and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It uses GCP's BigQuery API, Sheets, and Slides to collect, analyze and present data.

• Coursera
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Big Data Solutions for Social and Economic Disparities

Join Harvard University Professor Raj Chetty in this online course to understand how big data can be used to measure mobility and solve social problems.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

EDUCBA

Apache Hive: Design, Query & Optimize Big Data

Design Hive databases and tables, implement partitioning and bucketing, apply joins, configure SerDe, build custom UDFs, and tune HiveQL queries with views, indexing and compression.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Data Visualization and Security in AWS Big Data

Build QuickSight dashboards and custom JavaScript visualizations from S3 data, then secure big data on AWS with IAM permissions, KMS encryption, and CloudTrail audit logs.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course