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ElasticSearch and Lucene for Apache Spark and MLib

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Elasticsearch is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is released as open source under the terms of the Apache License. Official clients are available in Java, .NET (C#), Python, Groovy and many other languages. Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine followed by Apache Solr, also based on Lucene.



Best Data Science, Machine Learning Courses from Udemy (only $12 until Sep 20)

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Here is a list of the best courses in Data Science and Machine Learning from Udemy. With the back-to-school sale, you can get these and other Udemy courses for $12, 90-95% off original price. Udemy.com is an online marketplace for learning, their data science content is updated regularly by the instructors who created good courses (filled with actionable tools) and bite-size lessons that help you cover defined topics at your own pace. Ready to be thrown into the deep end and learn the real problems a data scientist faces on a daily basis? Data Science management consultant Kirill Eremenko teaches this intense, best-selling course to over 23K students and counting.


Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Coursera

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This five-course accelerated specialization is designed for data professionals who are responsible for designing, building, analyzing, and optimizing big data solutions. Through a combination of video lectures, quizzes, and hands-on labs, you'll learn how to carry out serverless data analysis and productionize machine learning models. This specialization is designed to give participants a robust hands-on experience and is primarily lab-focused. Learn how to deliver business value with Big Data and Machine Learning Solutions on Google Cloud Platform. To get up to speed quickly, follow the courses in this specialization.


Bigdata Analytics with Hive,Spark,Sqoop - Udemy

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SparkR is an R package that provides a light-weight frontend to use Apache Spark from R. In Spark 2.0.2, SparkR provides a distributed data frame implementation that supports operations like selection, filtering, aggregation etc. (similar to R data frames) but on large datasets. SparkR also supports distributed machine learning using MLlib. You will learn how to create spark cluster in Databricks. You will learn how to create dataframes and grouping data and aggregating data.


Become a Citizen Data Scientist : Marketing perspective

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You will engage in 5 hands-on labs for creating advanced models …. Because our goal is to get you up to speed as quickly as possible, we'll cover through the 30 lectures, The course will enable you to extract actionable insight from your customers' data According to a Mckinsey Study, demand for data scientists is projected to exceed supply by more than 50% by 2018. That's the gap you as citizen Data Scientists are going to fill Citizen data scientist are "Business people with the right attitude - curious, adventurous, determined - to research and improve things in the organization" SAS The need is so, that according to Gartner, by 2017, the number of citizen data scientists will grow 5 times faster than the number of highly skilled data scientists. This course is designed for business professionals: marketer, manager and analytical minds in every department … who want to take their skills to the next level. If you have solid business knowledge, curious, determined to improve things in your company or just willing to learn new methods and tools than this course is for you….


The AI ecosystem to be on display at Disrupt SF

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As artificial intelligence creeps deeper into each and every industry vertical, demand for experienced technical talent only continues to increase. Now online education tools like Udacity and Coursera are being thrust into the spotlight as potential solutions to the problem. But even as course enrollment in AI classes balloons, Fortune 2000 companies are still paying an unsustainable premium for data scientists. We're excited to showcase this ecosystem at Disrupt SF. Both Udacity's Sebastian Thrun and Coursera's Andrew Ng understand the potential repercussions of this trend intimately.


The AI ecosystem to be on display at Disrupt SF

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As artificial intelligence creeps deeper into each and every industry vertical, demand for experienced technical talent only continues to increase. Now online education tools like Udacity and Coursera are being thrust into the spotlight as potential solutions to the problem. But even as course enrollment in AI classes balloons, Fortune 2000 companies are still paying an unsustainable premium for data scientists. We're excited to showcase this ecosystem at Disrupt SF. Both Udacity's Sebastian Thrun and Coursera's Andrew Ng understand the potential repercussions of this trend intimately.


Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Abdelrahman Elogeel from Amazon Robotics

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Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material. Abdelrahman is a Software Development Engineer in the Core Machine Learning team at Amazon Robotics. His work includes bringing state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to tackle various problems for robots at Amazon's robotic fulfillment centers. You can find all the interviews here. We'll be posting them regularly on Robohub.


8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist Udacity

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You're in good company – a recent article by Laurence Bradford in Forbes calls data science'the century's hottest career'. But how can you get your foot in the door? Many resources out there may lead you to believe that becoming a data scientist requires comprehensive mastery of a number of fields, such as software development, data munging, databases, statistics, machine learning and data visualization. You don't need to learn a lifetime's worth of data-related information and skills as quickly as possible. Instead, learn to read data science job descriptions closely.