Big Data Training in Porto

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data scientists and engineers who wish to use Google Colab and Apache Spark for big data processing and analytics.

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

• Set up a big data environment using Google Colab and Spark.
• Process and analyze large datasets efficiently with Apache Spark.
• Visualize big data in a collaborative environment.
• Integrate Apache Spark with cloud-based tools.

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

Greenplum is an open-source massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform designed for analytics and large-scale data environments.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level technical users who wish to understand the internal architecture of Greenplum, build optimized data models, and apply high-performance SQL in distributed environments.

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

• Understand Greenplum’s shared-nothing architecture and parallelism model.
• Design distributed table structures and partitions optimized for query performance.
• Use indexing strategies, storage formats, and physical design techniques.
• Interpret EXPLAIN plans and optimize queries using best practices.

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.

Confluent Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines and real-time analytics.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators and DevOps professionals who wish to install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Confluent Apache Kafka clusters.

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

• Understand the components and architecture of Confluent Kafka.
• Deploy and manage Kafka brokers, Zookeeper quorums, and key services.
• Configure advanced features including security, replication, and performance tuning.
• Use management tools to monitor and maintain Kafka clusters.

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 Porto (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 Porto (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.

Big Data and Advanced Analytics is the application of sophisticated techniques and tools to analyze large, complex datasets for actionable insights and strategic decision-making.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level data professionals who wish to leverage cutting-edge analytical methods and big data technologies for predictive, prescriptive, and real-time analytics.

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

• Design and implement large-scale data processing pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Apply advanced machine learning and deep learning techniques to massive datasets.
• Leverage distributed computing frameworks for real-time analytics and data streaming.
• Integrate big data analytics into business intelligence and decision-making systems.

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 Porto (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 Porto 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.

Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service in AWS.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of Amazon Redshift.

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

• Install and configure Amazon Redshift
• Load, configure, deploy, query, and visualize data with Amazon Redshift

Audience

• Developers
• IT Professionals

Format of the course

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

Note

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

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.

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 Porto, 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 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

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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Porto, 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.

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (online or onsite) is aimed at architects, developers, and administrators who wish to use Denodo Platform to optimize and accelerate data management through data virtualization.

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

• Install and configure Denodo Platform.
• Understand the features and architecture of Denodo Platform.
• Understand the key concepts, benefits, and use cases for data virtualization.
• Learn how to configure and manage the Denodo Platform server.
• Implement data security, user access, and services authentication.
• Apply the tools and techniques for operations monitoring and performance optimization.

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 Porto (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 Porto (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to deploy and manage Apache NiFi in a live lab environment.

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

• Install and configure Apachi NiFi.
• Source, transform and manage data from disparate, distributed data sources, including databases and big data lakes.
• Automate dataflows.
• Enable streaming analytics.
• Apply various approaches for data ingestion.
• Transform Big Data and into business insights.

Apache SolrCloud is a distributed data processing engine that facilitates the searching and indexing of files on a distributed network.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up a SolrCloud instance on Amazon AWS.

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

• Understand SolCloud's features and how they compare to those of conventional master-slave clusters
• Configure a SolCloud centralized cluster
• Automate processes such as communicating with shards, adding documents to the shards, etc.
• Use Zookeeper in conjunction with SolrCloud to further automate processes
• Use the interface to manage error reporting
• Load balance a SolrCloud installation
• Configure SolrCloud for continuous processing and fail-over

Audience

• Solr Developers
• Project Managers
• System Administrators
• Search Analysts

Format of the course

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

MLlib is Spark’s machine learning (ML) library. Its goal is to make practical machine learning scalable and easy. It consists of common learning algorithms and utilities, including classification, regression, clustering, collaborative filtering, dimensionality reduction, as well as lower-level optimization primitives and higher-level pipeline APIs.

It divides into two packages:

• spark.mllib contains the original API built on top of RDDs.

• spark.ml provides higher-level API built on top of DataFrames for constructing ML pipelines.

Audience

This course is directed at engineers and developers seeking to utilize a built in Machine Library for Apache Spark

This instructor-led, live training in Porto (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.

Process mining, or Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD), is a technique that applies algorithms to event logs for the purpose of analyzing business processes. Process mining goes beyond data storage and data analysis; it bridges data with processes and provides insights into the trends and patterns that affect process efficiency. 

Format of the Course

• The course starts with an overview of the most commonly used techniques for process mining. We discuss the various process discovery algorithms and tools used for discovering and modeling processes based on raw event data. Real-life case studies are examined and data sets are analyzed using the ProM open-source framework.