Big Data Training in Portugal

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Portugal will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

Confluent Apache Kafka is an enterprise-grade distributed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. It supports high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines and real-time streaming applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level engineers and administrators who wish to deploy, configure, and optimize Confluent Kafka clusters in production environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install, configure, and operate Confluent Kafka clusters with multiple brokers.
• Design high-availability setups using Zookeeper and replication techniques.
• Tune performance, monitor metrics, and apply recovery strategies.
• Secure, scale, and integrate Kafka with enterprise environments.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level data professionals who wish to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively utilize Apache Iceberg for managing large-scale datasets, ensuring data integrity, and optimizing data processing workflows.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a thorough understanding of Apache Iceberg's architecture, features, and benefits.
• Learn about table formats, partitioning, schema evolution, and time travel capabilities.
• Install and configure Apache Iceberg in different environments.
• Create, manage, and manipulate of Iceberg tables.
• Understand the process of migrating data from other table formats to Iceberg.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use and integrate Spark, Hadoop, and Python to process, analyze, and transform large and complex data sets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary environment to start processing big data with Spark, Hadoop, and Python.
• Understand the features, core components, and architecture of Spark and Hadoop.
• Learn how to integrate Spark, Hadoop, and Python for big data processing.
• Explore the tools in the Spark ecosystem (Spark MlLib, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Sqoop, Kafka, and Flume).
• Build collaborative filtering recommendation systems similar to Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Spotify, and Google.
• Use Apache Mahout to scale machine learning algorithms.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Portugal will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use Excel for data mining.

• By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Explore data with Excel to perform data mining and analysis.
• Use Microsoft algorithms for data mining.
• Understand concepts in Excel data mining.

Dremio is an open-source "self-service data platform" that accelerates the querying of different types of data sources. Dremio integrates with relational databases, Apache Hadoop, MongoDB, Amazon S3, ElasticSearch, and other data sources. It supports SQL and provides a web UI for building queries.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to install, configure and use Dremio as a unifying layer for data analysis tools and the underlying data repositories.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Dremio
• Execute queries against multiple data sources, regardless of location, size, or structure
• Integrate Dremio with BI and data sources such as Tableau and Elasticsearch

Audience

• Data scientists
• Business analysts
• Data engineers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This course is intended for developers and data scientists who want to understand and implement artificial intelligence in their applications. Special focus is placed on data analytics, distributed AI, and natural language processing.

Audience:

The course is intended for IT specialists looking for a solution to store and process large data sets in a distributed system environment

Goal:

Deep knowledge on Hadoop cluster administration.

Advances in technologies and the increasing amount of information are transforming how business is conducted in many industries, including government. Government data generation and digital archiving rates are on the rise due to the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications, smart sensors and devices, cloud computing solutions, and citizen-facing portals. As digital information expands and becomes more complex, information management, processing, storage, security, and disposition become more complex as well. New capture, search, discovery, and analysis tools are helping organizations gain insights from their unstructured data. The government market is at a tipping point, realizing that information is a strategic asset, and government needs to protect, leverage, and analyze both structured and unstructured information to better serve and meet mission requirements. As government leaders strive to evolve data-driven organizations to successfully accomplish mission, they are laying the groundwork to correlate dependencies across events, people, processes, and information.

High-value government solutions will be created from a mashup of the most disruptive technologies:

• Mobile devices and applications
• Cloud services
• Social business technologies and networking
• Big Data and analytics

IDC predicts that by 2020, the IT industry will reach $5 trillion, approximately $1.7 trillion larger than today, and that 80% of the industry's growth will be driven by these 3rd Platform technologies. In the long term, these technologies will be key tools for dealing with the complexity of increased digital information. Big Data is one of the intelligent industry solutions and allows government to make better decisions by taking action based on patterns revealed by analyzing large volumes of data — related and unrelated, structured and unstructured.

But accomplishing these feats takes far more than simply accumulating massive quantities of data.“Making sense of thesevolumes of Big Datarequires cutting-edge tools and technologies that can analyze and extract useful knowledge from vast and diverse streams of information,” Tom Kalil and Fen Zhao of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote in a post on the OSTP Blog.

The White House took a step toward helping agencies find these technologies when it established the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative in 2012. The initiative included more than $200 million to make the most of the explosion of Big Data and the tools needed to analyze it.

The challenges that Big Data poses are nearly as daunting as its promise is encouraging. Storing data efficiently is one of these challenges. As always, budgets are tight, so agencies must minimize the per-megabyte price of storage and keep the data within easy access so that users can get it when they want it and how they need it. Backing up massive quantities of data heightens the challenge.

Analyzing the data effectively is another major challenge. Many agencies employ commercial tools that enable them to sift through the mountains of data, spotting trends that can help them operate more efficiently. (A recent study by MeriTalk found that federal IT executives think Big Data could help agencies save more than $500 billion while also fulfilling mission objectives.).

Custom-developed Big Data tools also are allowing agencies to address the need to analyze their data. For example, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computational Data Analytics Group has made its Piranha data analytics system available to other agencies. The system has helped medical researchers find a link that can alert doctors to aortic aneurysms before they strike. It’s also used for more mundane tasks, such as sifting through résumés to connect job candidates with hiring managers.

This classroom based training session will explore Big Data. Delegates will have computer based examples and case study exercises to undertake with relevant big data tools

Day 1 - provides a high-level overview of essential Big Data topic areas. The module is divided into a series of sections, each of which is accompanied by a hands-on exercise.

Day 2 - explores a range of topics that relate analysis practices and tools for Big Data environments. It does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that enable participants to develop a comprehensive understanding of the common analysis functions and features offered by Big Data solutions.

Day 3 - provides an overview of the fundamental and essential topic areas relating to Big Data solution platform architecture. It covers Big Data mechanisms required for the development of a Big Data solution platform and architectural options for assembling a data processing platform. Common scenarios are also presented to provide a basic understanding of how a Big Data solution platform is generally used. 

Day 4 - builds upon Day 3 by exploring advanced topics relatng to Big Data solution platform architecture. In particular, different architectural layers that make up the Big Data solution platform are introduced and discussed, including data sources, data ingress, data storage, data processing and security. 

Day 5 - covers a number of exercises and problems designed to test the delegates ability to apply knowledge of topics covered Day 3 and 4. 

In this instructor-led, live training in Portugal, participants will learn the mindset with which to approach Big Data technologies, assess their impact on existing processes and policies, and implement these technologies for the purpose of identifying criminal activity and preventing crime. Case studies from law enforcement organizations around the world will be examined to gain insights on their adoption approaches, challenges and results.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Combine Big Data technology with traditional data gathering processes to piece together a story during an investigation.
• Implement industrial big data storage and processing solutions for data analysis.
• Prepare a proposal for the adoption of the most adequate tools and processes for enabling a data-driven approach to criminal investigation.

Big Data is a term that refers to solutions destined for storing and processing large data sets. Developed by Google initially, these Big Data solutions have evolved and inspired other similar projects, many of which are available as open-source. R is a popular programming language in the financial industry.

When traditional storage technologies don't handle the amount of data you need to store there are hundereds of alternatives. This course try to guide the participants what are alternatives for storing and analyzing Big Data and what are theirs pros and cons.

This course is mostly focused on discussion and presentation of solutions, though hands-on exercises are available on demand.

The course is part of the Data Scientist skill set (Domain: Data and Technology).

Audience

If you try to make sense out of the data you have access to or want to analyse unstructured data available on the net (like Twitter, Linked in, etc...) this course is for you.

It is mostly aimed at decision makers and people who need to choose what data is worth collecting and what is worth analyzing.

It is not aimed at people configuring the solution, those people will benefit from the big picture though.

Delivery Mode

During the course delegates will be presented with working examples of mostly open source technologies.

Short lectures will be followed by presentation and simple exercises by the participants

Content and Software used

All software used is updated each time the course is run, so we check the newest versions possible.

It covers the process from obtaining, formatting, processing and analysing the data, to explain how to automate decision making process with machine learning.

R is an open-source free programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. R is used by a growing number of managers and data analysts inside corporations and academia. R has a wide variety of packages for data mining.

In this instructor-led, live training in Portugal, participants will learn how to build a Data Vault.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and design concepts behind Data Vault 2.0, and its interaction with Big Data, NoSQL and AI.
• Use data vaulting techniques to enable auditing, tracing, and inspection of historical data in a data warehouse.
• Develop a consistent and repeatable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process.
• Build and deploy highly scalable and repeatable warehouses.

Apache Druid is an open-source, column-oriented, distributed data store written in Java. It was designed to quickly ingest massive quantities of event data and execute low-latency OLAP queries on that data. Druid is commonly used in business intelligence applications to analyze high volumes of real-time and historical data. It is also well suited for powering fast, interactive, analytic dashboards for end-users. Druid is used by companies such as Alibaba, Airbnb, Cisco, eBay, Netflix, Paypal, and Yahoo.

In this instructor-led, live course we explore some of the limitations of data warehouse solutions and discuss how Druid can compliment those technologies to form a flexible and scalable streaming analytics stack. We walk through many examples, offering participants the chance to implement and test Druid-based solutions in a lab environment.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice, occasional tests to gauge understanding

Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level professionals who wish to gain a mastery of the fundamentals of R and how to work with data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the R programming environment and RStudio interface.
• Import, manipulate, and explore datasets using R commands and packages.
• Perform basic statistical analysis and data summarization.
• Generate visualizations using both base R and ggplot2.
• Manage workspaces, scripts, and packages effectively.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to learn how to set up, deploy and manage Hadoop clusters within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apache Hadoop.
• Understand the four major components in the Hadoop ecoystem: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and Hadoop Common.
• Use Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to scale a cluster to hundreds or thousands of nodes.  
• Set up HDFS to operate as storage engine for on-premise Spark deployments.
• Set up Spark to access alternative storage solutions such as Amazon S3 and NoSQL database systems such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Aerospike, etc.
• Carry out administrative tasks such as provisioning, management, monitoring and securing an Apache Hadoop cluster.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) introduces Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and walks participants through the deployment of Spark + Hadoop solution.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use Hortonworks to reliably run Hadoop at a large scale.
• Unify Hadoop's security, governance, and operations capabilities with Spark's agile analytic workflows.
• Use Hortonworks to investigate, validate, certify and support each of the components in a Spark project.
• Process different types of data, including structured, unstructured, in-motion, and at-rest.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at data engineers, data scientists, and programmers who wish to use Apache Kafka features in data streaming with Python.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use Apache Kafka to monitor and manage conditions in continuous data streams using Python programming.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to learn how to implement a machine learning strategy while maximizing the use of big data.

By the end of this training, participants will:

• Understand the evolution and trends for machine learning.
• Know how machine learning is being used across different industries.
• Become familiar with the tools, skills and services available to implement machine learning within an organization.
• Understand how machine learning can be used to enhance data mining and analysis.
• Learn what a data middle backend is, and how it is being used by businesses.
• Understand the role that big data and intelligent applications are playing across industries.

In this instructor-led, live training in Portugal, participants will learn the fundamentals of flow-based programming as they develop a number of demo extensions, components and processors using Apache NiFi.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand NiFi's architecture and dataflow concepts.
• Develop extensions using NiFi and third-party APIs.
• Custom develop their own Apache Nifi processor.
• Ingest and process real-time data from disparate and uncommon file formats and data sources.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to use Spark NLP, built on top of Apache Spark, to develop, implement, and scale natural language text processing models and pipelines.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start building NLP pipelines with Spark NLP.
• Understand the features, architecture, and benefits of using Spark NLP.
• Use the pre-trained models available in Spark NLP to implement text processing.
• Learn how to build, train, and scale Spark NLP models for production-grade projects.
• Apply classification, inference, and sentiment analysis on real-world use cases (clinical data, customer behavior insights, etc.).

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to deploy Talend Open Studio for Big Data to simplifying the process of reading and crunching through Big Data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Talend Open Studio for Big Data.
• Connect with Big Data systems such as Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, Amazon EMR and Apache.
• Understand and set up Open Studio's big data components and connectors.
• Configure parameters to automatically generate MapReduce code.
• Use Open Studio's drag-and-drop interface to run Hadoop jobs.
• Prototype big data pipelines.
• Automate big data integration projects.