09/26/2017
The 9 Best Free Online Big Data And Data Science Courses
The demand for Big Data is on the rise. As per the reports, in coming years, Big data will rule Data Analytics market with a market share of 50% or more. With so many jobs being created in market due to Big Data, there is a demand of Big Data introductory courses online. So here is a list of major big data courses which are available for free or with nominal charges.
1) Coursera: Coursera provides specialization course in Data Science and Big Data for 7-8 weeks which is available for free without certificate. They charge for the additional certificates.
2) Jigsaw Academy: Jigsaw Academy provides courses in Big Data and Analytics. They offer courses for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. The beginner course is free of cost while others are available for a small amount of money.
3) Udacity: Udacity is also an online platform which provides courses like Introduction to Computer Science, Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Statistics, then progress to big data.
4) EMC: EMC provides Big Data courses starting from basic to advanced data analysis methods with a price tag associated with the specialization course.
5) MIT Open Courseware: Massachusetts Institute of Technology publishes all of their course materials online, and make the accessible to all. With this, one can harness the advances and expert’s courses on Big Data online for free.
6) Stanford’s OpenClassroom: Like MIT, Stanford provides Big Data material online with a tagline “Full courses. Short Videos. Free for everyone.”
7) Code School: Code School offer many Big Data courses on specific programming languages, such as R, Java.
8) Big Data University: Big Data University offer courses across the big data and data science including real-time analytics and Hadoop.
9) Udemy: Udemy has over 160 courses for “Big Data” in their courses, which help you learn big data strategy for your business.
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