Big Data Project dictionary

Here is the list of interesting projects associated with big data ecosystem.

Ambari: The Apache Ambari project is aimed at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs. [Apache]

Avro: Data serialization engine for distributed/big data. [Apache]

BigTable: Google's non-relational system that includes terabytes of memory and petabytes of storage which can deal with millions of reads or writes per second.[Google]

Chubby: Google's lock service for loosely coupled. [Google]

Learn Statistics: Online courses and videos

As we start learning data analysis and mining, knowledge of statistics is really important. These are good collection of statistics video from the source: stats.stackexchange.com

General

• Khan Academy Statistics Videos 

• Statistics Videos on Sentiment Mining

• Stats 202 - Statistical Aspects of Data Mining (Google campus version)

• SLUO Lecture Series (operated by Stanford University)

• University of Houston  

Full length courses for big data career aspirants

Data Analytics

Computing for Data Analysis | John Hopkins University
https://www.coursera.org/course/compdata

Computational Methods for Data Analysis | University of Washington
https://www.coursera.org/course/compmethods

Data Analysis | John Hopkins University
https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis

MapReduce Learning Resources

There are many good links on the Internet explaining about MapReduce. However few of them are easy to understand and really useful. Here is the collection of those links.

Basic Level explanation : A guy explaining what is MapReduce to his wife with easy to understand examples and simple words.

Another basic explanation (simple explanation on Quora)

Quora : (Simple yet detailed explanation)

The Big Data Rising

It might be Harvard, MIT or Gartner, everyone is taking good note of big data. Here are few recent article links from leading tech blogs which highlights future scope, growth and other predictions about big data.

Harvard Business Review:

Big Data: The Management Revolution

Making Advanced Analytics Work for You

Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century