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Was a very hands-on experience with the Hadoop ecosystem streaming and analysis of live tweets from twitter gave a general outlook on how to perform simple operations with the HDFS
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Lot of new information, excellent delivery. Given 4 as I feel real-use case flavor is inadequate -exercises could be more intensive, real case studies can be added.
By Nikhil C
•Jul 26, 2020
Overall a good course to get the basics of what the difference is between managing Big Data system, versus your more traditional systems. I really like both instructors.
I took one star off because one of the twitter API assignments that we were supposed to do in the VM didn't work. Plus there's no one to support you in case an issue like this occurs.
By Hugo A A S D
•Apr 25, 2022
I can't give the 5th star because of the hands on exercises that are frozen in time. First, with Windows 10 and 11 we have Hyper-V and the course only provides Oracle VMs that are incompatible with Hyper-V. Than, the exercises are in Python 2, and in 2022 it's dead and most of the things we can't make them work because there isn't support for that.
By Don M
•Oct 10, 2016
This course is a valuable introduction to Big Data Models and Management Systems for a variety of data types. The hands on exercises and company use case examples provide helpful context and application of the concepts. This knowledge also provides the learner with more confidence in navigating big data conversations in a professional environment.
By Siphephelo B G
•Jul 8, 2018
I loved how it built on knowledge obtained from the previous course and even had a recap video as a reminder of what was covered then. My only real gripe is how the felt like a bit of a curved ball - it was tricky to understand what was required of us. Overall, the course content is solid and I would recommend it to anyone
By Spencer
•Oct 16, 2017
The lectures and hands on material for this course deserve 5 stars. I did not like the peer review assignment as I thought it was unclear and that the review process is very inconsistent. That being said I have not liked peer review projects for any classes I have take on coursera so I would still recommend this class.
By Prospero-Martin R
•Mar 24, 2018
I enjoyed the lectures and liked the topics. Although I would like little bit more hands-on quizes. The "Designing a Big Data Management System for an Online Game" questions where unclear, probably if we had had more hands-on exercises throughout we would not be as confused as gain confidence.
By Carsten K
•Aug 26, 2020
The course is great, but the peer review assignment at the end needs a lot of polishing, as the instructions are unclear and way to vague. Furthermore, the answers are not very specific, making grading difficult at best. Despite the peer review assignment, I can fully recommend the course.
By koyel s
•Jan 13, 2017
This course captures the overview of Big data modelling concept in a very simple way. I found this course very useful. Instructors are good to explain the concepts. Though it would be good to add one or two (add-on or optional hands on exercises) handson for graph and tree data modelling.
By H J
•Aug 2, 2017
Excellent intro to the subject. The instructors explain the material well. I deducted one star for the grading treatment of the Peer-Graded Assignment (Catch the Pink Flamingo). It's understood that there is no one "right" answer, but peers should be given a range of possible answers.
By Devon E
•Aug 9, 2018
Another excellent course.
The only thing I would have liked (and maybe this comes later in the upcoming courses) is for the course to take a look inside the python and Lucence scripts so that we could be talked through how these are actually processing the data with guidance.
By Vinod S
•Jan 18, 2018
Great course on concepts of Big data modelling.
Great opportunity to learn from 2 people who are actually working on Big data issues in the Live world.
The assignment in week 6 can be improved in terms of more objective questions and the spaces provided to write the answers.
By Brian S
•Jul 11, 2022
Good course overall. Fundamentals covered well. Perhaps a bit too easy. A lot of python scripts are broken with the latest version of python. CentOS is also no longer supported. Should have used a 100% self-contained VM and not getting users to re-download python etc..
By Sarah A
•Sep 25, 2020
I believe some of the content is not easy to understand, although the course is great, I had to go online to check some of the concepts to fully understand them.
Still, I recommend the course for all of those initiating their careers with Big Data
By Dhairya T
•Jul 27, 2020
Pretty good course with deep learning methods and detailed hands on experience except the Gephi one where they could have mentioned better about the downloaded gephi icon on desktop wont work. But overall an excellent course ..worth your time
By Felipe Z
•Dec 7, 2020
The course is better than the first one, which more real examples and tools that are used to model and manage big data. The concepts are getting more intersting because they are more related to the real activities with big data.
By Dennis N
•May 19, 2017
I got excellent exposure to the various ways that big data is handled and structured and it was in detail as well. I highly recommend this course for anyone who is pursuing a career in being involved in the big data landscape.
By Snehal B
•Sep 8, 2018
I would rate it 4/5.
First 4 weeks, we can still relate and keep up to pace with context. But week 5 onwards it becomes difficult to understand. Please come up with more real life scenarios to explain different BDMS models.
By Apurva T
•Feb 3, 2019
Course was very good, some concepts were a little tough to understand, like the graph network and other topics of first 3 weeks. But on the whole a very good course to understand basics of data modeling and management.
By Rudransh P
•May 25, 2021
Overall, the course is good but the lectures get too boring sometimes when lecturers keep stating properties and stats continously without explaining the examples. This especially happens in Ilkay Ma'am's lectures.
By Xing Z
•Jul 9, 2018
The content is good overall, but the final project assignment is awful. It's not about whether the questions are too easy or too hard, it is the way in which the assignment is organized that seems confusing.
By PLN R
•Mar 7, 2018
Pretty good course. The peer corrected assignment is avoidable. Instead, a little bit of programming may be introduced! The course becomes extremely boring due to only theoretical aspects and quizzes.
By David R D N
•Nov 23, 2016
Pretty good overall, although some exercises are a bit difficult to understand from the descriptions and instructions given, some graphs and initial reference documentation for exercises might help
By Yaniv G
•Oct 31, 2016
Overall relevant and clear presentations. Course material quite general, but I guess this is expected from an introductory-level course.
Peer-reviewed assignment's instructions can be clearer.
By Bhola N R
•Oct 11, 2018
It was a difficult module, although trainer tried to convey but seems it is more complex it took time for me to understand the concept and apply the same while doing my assignment.
By CHANDAN J
•Feb 4, 2018
Great overview of a few databases and what they are good at. Would have liked actual hands-on like installing a database and demonstrating the key feature the database is good at.