HDP Analyst: Data Science Training in Ireland

Students must have experience with at least one programming or scripting language, knowledge in statistics and/or mathematics, and a basic understanding of big data and Hadoop principles. Students new to Hadoop are encouraged to attend the HDP Overview: Apache Hadoop Essentials course

Architects, software developers, analysts and data scientists who need to apply data science and machine learning on Hadoop.

• At the completion of the course students will be able to:Recognize use cases for data scienceDescribe the architecture of Hadoop and YARN
• Recognize use cases for data science
• Describe the architecture of Hadoop and YARN
• Describe supervised and unsupervised learning differences
• List the six machine learning tasks
• Use Mahout to run a machine learning algorithm on Hadoop
• Describe the data science life cycle
• Use Pig to transform and prepare data on Hadoop
• Write a Python script
• Use NumPy to analyze big data
• Use the data structure classes in the pandas library
• Write a Python script that invokes SciPy machine learning
• Describe options for running Python code on a Hadoop cluster
• Write a Pig User-Defined Function in Python
• Use Pig streaming on Hadoop with a Python script
• Write a Python script that invokes scikit-learn
• Use the k-nearest neighbor algorithm to predict values
• Run a machine learning algorithm on a distributed data set
• Describe use cases for Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Perform sentence segmentation on a large body of text
• Perform part-of-speech tagging
• Use the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
• Describe the components of a Spark application
• Write a Spark application in Python
• Run machine learning algorithms using Spark MLlib
• Take data science into production

• Setting Up a Development Environment  
• Using HDFS Commands
• Using Mahout for Machine Learning
• Getting Started with Pig
• Exploring Data with Pig
• Using the IPython Notebook
• Data Analysis with Python
• Interpolating Data Points
• Define a Pig UDF in Python
• Streaming Python with Pig
• K-Nearest Neighbor and K-Means Clustering
• Using NLTK for Natural Language Processing
• Classifying Text using Naive Bayes
• Spark Programming and Spark MLlib