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Udacity: Sebastian Thrun: Launching our Data Science & Big Data Track built with Leading Industry Partners
I am excited to launch our new Data Science and Big Data Track. This is the first Data Science and Big Data curriculum built directly with industry pioneers. You can learn the latest techniques, tools, and concepts developed at the companies that made Big Data big. Our first class in this track, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, is available immediately. This course has been built in collaboration with Cloudera, the industry leader for enterprise-grade data management software. In this course, Cloudera’s experts and our Udacity instructors will start by answering the question “What is Big Data?” They will teach you fundamental principles of Hadoop, MapReduce, and how to make sense of big data. Developers will learn skills that provide fundamental building blocks towards deriving maximum value from the world's data. Technologists and business managers will gain the knowledge to build a big data strategy around Hadoop. We are very excited about this partnership,…