Bigdata related free courses from coursera

If you are interested to learning bigdata ,below course are good for starting.

1.web intelligence and bigdata

It is conducted by IITDelhi professor.

At the end of this course ,you will get what is web intelligence?

what are the different applications of it?

what is the role of bigdata in web intelligence?.what algorithms google is using on bigdata?

what is hadoop?what are the various technologies available in hadoop eco system?

Good part is ,you will be asked to solve some problems.

You require some basics of probability,statistics and rdbms.

2.Introduction to datascience

This is done by university of washington professor Bill howe.

It covers how to retrieve the data ?and How to classify it?

It even covers machine learning topics supervised learning and unsupervised learning.

visualization is also part of data science.

3.Machine learning

This is done by stanford university  professor Andrew Ng.

Machine learning is ,making a machine think and act like human being.in this course you learn that with the help of bigdata.

You will also learn different machine learning techniques like supervised learning and unsupervised learning.

4.Machine learning

This is course same as above but it covers supervised learning in depth and little of unsupervised learning.

good things about these classes are free classes ,you will get practical examples and guest lectures from industry technology leaders.

you will be given home works and practical assignments.You will also get statement of accomplishment depending on the courses and your performance.

Datasets for practicing hadoop

To practise Hadoop you can use below ways to generate the big data (GB),So that you can get the real feel/power of the Hadoop.

1.clearbits.net

From clearbits.net, you can get quarterly full data set of stack exchange so that you can use it while you are practising the hadoop . it contains around 10 GB data.

2.grouplens.org

      grouplens.org collected different rating data sets ,you can use it for practicing the hadoop.

If you have Hadoop installed on your machine,you can use the following two ways to generate data.

3.hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/hadoop-examples.jar randomwriter /random-data

  generates 10 GB data per node under folder /random-data in HDFS.
                 

4.hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-0.20-mapreduce/hadoop-examples.jar randomtextwriter /random-text-data

 generates 10 GB textual data per node under folder /random-text-data in HDFS.

path of hadoop-examples.jar may change as per your hadoop installation.

5. Amazon provides so many data sets ,you can use them.

6. Check answers of the same question on stackoverflow

7.From University of Waikato ,many data sets available for practicing machine learning.

8.See answers for the similar question on Quora.

If you know any free data sets ,please share in comments