Big Data Training in Maia

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Maia 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 Maia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to have a comprehensive understanding of IBM DataStage from both an administrative and a development perspective, allowing them to manage and utilize this tool effectively in their respective workplaces.

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

• Understand the core concepts of DataStage.
• Learn how to effectively install, configure, and manage DataStage environments.
• Connect to various data sources and extract data efficiently from databases, flat files, and external sources.
• Implement effective data loading techniques.

This instructor-led, live training in Maia (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level system administrators who wish to deploy, maintain, and optimize Spark clusters.

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

• Install and configure Apache Spark in various environments.
• Manage cluster resources and monitor Spark applications.
• Optimize the performance of Spark clusters.
• Implement security measures and ensure high availability.
• Debug and troubleshoot common Spark issues.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Maia 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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Maia, participants will learn how to use Python and Spark together to analyze big data as they work on hands-on exercises.

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

• Learn how to use Spark with Python to analyze Big Data.
• Work on exercises that mimic real world cases.
• Use different tools and techniques for big data analysis using PySpark.

This instructor-led, live training in Maia (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.

The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of how to work with the SQL language in Oracle database for data extraction at intermediate level.

This instructor-led, live training in Maia (online or onsite) is aimed at application developers and engineers who wish to master more sophisticated usages of the Teradata database.

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

• Manage Teradata space.
• Protect and distribute data in Teradata.
• Read Explain Plan.
• Improve SQL proficiency.
• Use main utilities of Teradata.

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 Maia, 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).

This instructor-led, live training in Maia (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to program with R in SAS for cluster analysis.

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

• Use cluster analysis for data mining
• Master R syntax for clustering solutions.
• Implement hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering.
• Make data-driven decisions to help to improve business operations.

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.

This course is intended for engineers and decision makers working in data mining and knoweldge discovery.

You will learn how to create effective plots and ways to present and represent your data in a way that will appeal to the decision makers and help them to understand hidden information.

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.

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 Maia (online or onsite) is aimed at administrators who wish to set up Greenplum Database for business intelligence and data warehousing solutions.

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

• Address processing needs with Greenplum.
• Perform ETL operations for data processing.
• Leverage existing query processing infrastructures.

Apache Hadoop is the most popular framework for processing Big Data on clusters of servers. This course will introduce a developer to various components (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive and HBase) Hadoop ecosystem.

This instructor-led, live training in Maia (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.

Cloudera Impala is an open source massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop clusters.

Impala enables users to issue low-latency SQL queries to data stored in Hadoop Distributed File System and Apache Hbase without requiring data movement or transformation.

Audience

This course is aimed at analysts and data scientists performing analysis on data stored in Hadoop via Business Intelligence or SQL tools.

After this course delegates will be able to

• Extract meaningful information from Hadoop clusters with Impala.
• Write specific programs to facilitate Business Intelligence in Impala SQL Dialect.
• Troubleshoot Impala.

Kafka Streams is a client-side library for building applications and microservices whose data is passed to and from a Kafka messaging system. Traditionally, Apache Kafka has relied on Apache Spark or Apache Storm to process data between message producers and consumers. By calling the Kafka Streams API from within an application, data can be processed directly within Kafka, bypassing the need for sending the data to a separate cluster for processing.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to integrate Kafka Streams into a set of sample Java applications that pass data to and from Apache Kafka for stream processing.

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

• Understand Kafka Streams features and advantages over other stream processing frameworks
• Process stream data directly within a Kafka cluster
• Write a Java or Scala application or microservice that integrates with Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Write concise code that transforms input Kafka topics into output Kafka topics
• Build, package and deploy the application

Audience

• Developers

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 instructor-led, live training in Maia (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.

Spark SQL is Apache Spark's module for working with structured and unstructured data. Spark SQL provides information about the structure of the data as well as the computation being performed. This information can be used to perform optimizations. Two common uses for Spark SQL are:
- to execute SQL queries.
- to read data from an existing Hive installation.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to analyze various types of data sets using Spark SQL.

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

• Install and configure Spark SQL.
• Perform data analysis using Spark SQL.
• Query data sets in different formats.
• Visualize data and query results.

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 Maia (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.

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.