For your convenience, I have gathered a collection of useful, visual and easy to understand resources to help you get started. The resources below are designed to provide an education on fundamentals/concepts, sandbox environments and tutorials. Together, the collection of resources provides individuals at any understanding a place to start their Big Data learning and journey. Please feel free to add this to getting started toolkit because you will refer back to these resources occasionally.
My advise as you learn from the resources below is to pace yourself and take one step at a time. Make sure that you understand the concepts before proceeding to the sandbox and tutorials. Please feel free to reach out with any questions that you may have and I will do my best to provide an answer.
Good Luck!
Understanding Big Data Concepts:
What is NoSQL
Links:
- http://youtu.be/qUV2j3XBRHc
- http://youtu.be/pHAItWE7QMU
- http://www.couchbase.com/sites/default/files/uploads/all/whitepapers/NoSQL-Whitepaper.pdf
What is Hadoop
Links:
- http://youtu.be/3Wmdy80QOvw
- http://youtu.be/xYnS9PQRXTg
- http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.18.0/hdfs_design.pdf
What is Big Data
Links:
- http://youtu.be/j-0cUmUyb-Y
- http://youtu.be/ahZGEusG13A
- http://www.slideshare.net/remyavivek/big-data-ppt-23276173
Big Data Sandboxes:
Hortonworks
Link:(http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworks-sandbox/)
Cloudera
Link:(http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads/quickstart_vms/cdh-5-0-x.html)
Tutorials:
Hortonworks Hadoop, Hive and Pig tutorials
Link:(http://hortonworks.com/tutorials/)
Cloudera Hadoop and MapReduce tutorials
Link:(http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/HadoopTutorial/CDH4/Hadoop-Tutorial.html)
Spark tutorials
Link:(https://spark.apache.org/documentation.html)
Flume tutorials
Link:(http://www.openscg.com/2013/09/using-hadoop-to-flume-twitter-data/)
Hive tutorials
Link:(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial)
Sample Data Resources:
Tableau Data Sets
Link:(http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/community/sample-data-sets)
InfoChimps Data Sets
Link:(http://www.infochimps.com/datasets)
World Health Organization Data Sets
Link:(http://www.who.int/research/en/)
Sports Data Sets
Link:(http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/sports%20data%20resources/)
Miscellaneous Data Sets
Link:(http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/data.collections/datalibrary/data.set6.html)