Big Data Engineering
When you finish, you can
Build a data pipeline that moves, cleans and serves data at scale, and choose between the cloud tools without buying the wrong one.
Start hereYou need DS-201 and comfort with Python and SQL. Free tiers (BigQuery sandbox, local Spark) cover every exercise.
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Take a position on Big Data Engineering. The AI counselor argues the other side, asks you questions back, and cites a source for every fact it states. Sources listed under a reply are the pages it actually found; if none are listed, it is arguing from reasoning only. It is an AI and it can be wrong: check the sources.
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9h totalPractice
- Write a word count as a map step and a reduce step on paper, then in Python on a text file.
- Draw the difference between a data lake and a warehouse for your own organisation's data.
- List three signs your data has outgrown a single machine.
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Lake or warehouse for raw clickstream logs you might analyse next year? Say why in three sentences.
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