Cloudera and Udacity partner to offer Data Science training courses by Lauren Hockenson.
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After launching the Open Education Alliance with some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, Udacity has forged a partnership with Cloudera to bring comprehensive Data Science curriculum to a massively open online course (MOOC) format in a program called Cloudera University — allowing anyone to learn the intricacies of Hadoop and other Data Science methods.
“Recognizing the growing demand for skilled data professionals, more students are seeking instruction in Hadoop and data science in order to prepare themselves to take advantage of the rapidly expanding data economy,” said Sebastian Thun, founder of Udacity, in a press release. “As the leader in Hadoop solutions, training, and services, Cloudera’s insights and technical guidance are in high demand, so we are pleased to be leveraging that experience and expertise as their partner in online open courseware,”
The first offering to come via Cloudera University will be “Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce,” a three-lesson course that serves a precursor to the program’s larger, track-based training already in place. While Cloudera already offers many of these courses in Data Science, as well as intensive certificate training programs, in an in-person setting, it seems that the partnership with Udacity will translate curriculum that Cloudera has developed into a more palatable format for online learning.
Looking forward to Cloudera University reflecting all of the Hadoop eco-system.
In the mean time, there are a number of online training resources already available at Cloudera.