Databricks Launches MOOC: Data Science on Spark by Ameet Talwalkar and Anthony Joseph.
From the post:
For the past several months, we have been working in collaboration with professors from the University of California Berkeley and University of California Los Angeles to produce two freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We are proud to announce that both MOOCs will launch in June on the edX platform!
The first course, called Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, begins today [June 1, 2015] and teaches students about Apache Spark and performing data analysis. The second course, called Scalable Machine Learning, will begin on June 29th and will introduce the underlying statistical and algorithmic principles required to develop scalable machine learning pipelines, and provides hands-on experience using Spark. Both courses will be freely available on the edX MOOC platform, and edX Verified Certificates are also available for a fee.
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Both courses are available for free on the edX website, and you can sign up for them today:
It is our mission to enable data scientists and engineers around the world to leverage the power of Big Data, and an important part of this mission is to educate the next generation.
If you believe in the wisdom of crowds, some 80K enrolled students as of yesterday.
So, what are you waiting for?
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