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Udacity: New Course: Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce
Udacity is proud to launch our Data Science and Big Data track -- the first course, Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce, is available now! Together with industry partner Cloudera, we've created a great introduction to thinking about big data, Hadoop and MapReduce. Sarah Sproehnle, VP of Educational Services at Cloudera -- and your course instructor for Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce -- reflects on the course below. Learning MapReduce: Everywhere and For Everyone Tom White, author of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, recently celebrated his five-year anniversary at Cloudera with a blog post reflecting on the early days of Big Data and what has changed and remained since 2008. Having just seen Tom in New York at the biggest and best Hadoop World to date, I’m struck by the poignancy of his earliest memories. Even then, Cloudera’s projects were focused on broadening adoption and building the community by writing effective training material, integrating with…