Big Data Tutorial

This resource explains the most fundamental concepts of big data and the methods involved in the analytics of big data. The resource discusses things like the life cycles of different approaches used with big data mining. Each step of the life cycle of big data is followed by brief description on what that step does and why it is important to the process. It explains what goes on with a project that uses big data and what skills a competent data analyst must possess. This resource also has a mini project with Twitter that they have set up for the user to go through which is really useful for the beginners that are using this guide. It helps them get their feet wet with not only database management systems but also big data processes. The mini project really ties in everything about this resource guide together by having the user go through collecting the data and having them use SQL in order to organize it as well and tying it together with big data aspects of decision trees and other different statistical methods to analyze the massive amounts of data that the user collects.

Tips on Navigation:

The left sidebar has different links for more specific material concerning big data
The buttons at the top of the article underneath the heading contain special ways to view the article. For example, instead of always clicking next at the bottom, you can click Quick Guide and put the entire article on one page or click on PDF and convert the article to a PDF document
The resource button at the top will provide a list of different books and links to look through for more information on big data
The job search button will take you to the job search page that they have set up to look for jobs on thebig data focused side of the industry