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Data Engineering & Analytics

Big Data Engineer Certificate

Available in:Remote

UCI:3076

Self-Paced

Course fee
No-Cost
Course level
Intermediate
Training hours
80
Prerequisites
Must be a Per Scholas Alumnus

Course Overview

Enroll in Big Data Engineer (UCI-3076) to develop proven expertise to use Big Data methodologies to collect and analyze large amounts of data from different sources, using IBM Watson Studio and open-source tools. Gain an advanced proficiency in topics such as Apache Hadoop, Ambari, MapReduce, Spark, Mlib ZooKeeper, Big SQL, HDFS, YARN, and HBase.

Additional Info

What You'll Learn:

  • Describe fundamental data concepts including types of data, big data, analytics techniques, typical steps in the data analytics process, and data visualization
  • Identify widely adopted data science methodologies and explain the activities in a typical data science project
  • Identify applications of data science across industries in the world
  • Describe the role of a data analyst, data scientist, and data engineer
  • Identify the purpose and use of some common data analysis and visualization tools
  • Clean, refine, and visualize data using IBM Watson Studio with the data refinery tool
  • Recognize the job market, responsibilities and skill sets of a data analyst and data scientist, and resources and learning opportunities to explore

Schedule:

This course requires a minimum of 8 hours per week of independent learning to ensure on-time completion.

StartsApply byEndsWeeks
Nov 23, 2026Nov 20, 2026Feb 5, 202710
Feb 1, 2027Jan 18, 2027Mar 19, 202710

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