Big Data Analytical Platform on Alibaba Cloud

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Overview

Big Data Analytical Platform on Alibaba Cloud is a practical course designed to introduce learners to the powerful big data tools and services available within the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem. The course focuses on building scalable, secure, and efficient big data analytics solutions leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s native platforms. Learners explore core Alibaba Cloud services such as Max Compute for large-scale data processing, Data Works for data integration and orchestration, and Quick BI for interactive business intelligence reporting. The curriculum also covers...

Syllabus

Intro to Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitate using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model. This module will give you an introduction to Hadoop's features.

Hadoop on Alibaba Cloud

This module will dive deeper into the functions of Hadoop and particularly their applications through the Alibaba Cloud Platform. Courses will touch upon the uses of E-MapReduce, Hive, and Spark.

Big Data Product Overview

Get an overview of all of Alibaba Clouds Big Data products, their different architectures, and use scenarios.

MaxCompute Basic

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing. MaxCompute supports various data importing solutions and distributed computing models, enabling users to effectively query massive datasets, reduce production costs, and ensure data security. Learn the basics of this products use in this module.

MaxCompute SQL

MaxCompute SQL is used for offline batch computing and computing scenarios that involve gigabytes, terabytes, or exabytes of data. MaxCompute is suitable for batch jobs that process large volumes of data. Learn more about the MaxCompute SQL language and uses in this module.

MaxCompute UDF

MaxCompute User-Defined Functions users customize their data engine to produce useful results. Learn how to develop functions and apply them to MaxCompute in this module.

MaxCompute Security

By using symmetric AccessKey pairs, MaxCompute is designed to handle security issues in multi-tenant scenarios. MaxCompute Security measures meet the requirements for multi-user collaboration, data sharing, data confidentiality, and data security. Learn more in the module.

Dataworks Basic

DataWorks is a Big Data platform product launched by Alibaba Cloud. It provides one-stop Big Data development, data permission management, and offline job scheduling. The process of acquisition, processing, and monitoring are all explained in this module.

Data Visualization

Displaying your data in a clear and concise way is the key final step to making your data work for you. This module explains different types of graphing methods as well as gives a demo to walk users through creating their first graphs.

PAI Overview

The Platform for Artificial Intelligences users design machine learning algorithms to read large sets of data while teaching itself how to be more accurate and useful. This module gives basic architectures of PAI while teaching PAI's best practices.