Online Big Data Training in Slovenia

Stratio is a data-centric platform that integrates big data, AI, and governance into a single solution. Its Rocket and Intelligence modules enable rapid data exploration, transformation, and advanced analytics in enterprise environments.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data professionals who wish to use the Rocket and Intelligence modules in Stratio effectively with PySpark, focusing on looping structures, user-defined functions, and advanced data logic.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and work within the Stratio platform using Rocket and Intelligence modules.
• Apply PySpark in the context of data ingestion, transformation, and analysis.
• Use loops and conditional logic to control data workflows and feature engineering tasks.
• Create and manage user-defined functions (UDFs) for reusable data operations in PySpark.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Slovenia will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

Greenplum is an open-source massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform designed for analytics and large-scale data environments.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level technical users who wish to understand the internal architecture of Greenplum, build optimized data models, and apply high-performance SQL in distributed environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Greenplum’s shared-nothing architecture and parallelism model.
• Design distributed table structures and partitions optimized for query performance.
• Use indexing strategies, storage formats, and physical design techniques.
• Interpret EXPLAIN plans and optimize queries using best practices.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level data professionals who wish to optimize data processing workflows, ensure data integrity, and implement robust data lakehouse solutions that can handle the complexities of modern big data applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Iceberg’s architecture, including metadata management and file layout.
• Configure Iceberg for optimal performance in various environments and integrate it with multiple data processing engines.
• Manage large-scale Iceberg tables, perform complex schema changes, and handle partition evolution.
• Master techniques to optimize query performance and data scan efficiency for large datasets.
• Implement mechanisms to ensure data consistency, manage transactional guarantees, and handle failures in distributed environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data engineers who wish to learn how to use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for effective data analytics solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and key features of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Optimize data storage and access for cost and performance.
• Integrate Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 with other Azure services for analytics and data processing.
• Develop solutions using the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 API.
• Troubleshoot common issues and optimize storage strategies.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level data analysts and data scientists who wish to use Weka to perform data mining tasks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Weka.
• Understand the Weka environment and workbench.
• Perform data mining tasks using Weka.

Participants who complete this instructor-led, live training in Slovenia will gain a practical, real-world understanding of Big Data and its related technologies, methodologies and tools.

Participants will have the opportunity to put this knowledge into practice through hands-on exercises. Group interaction and instructor feedback make up an important component of the class.

The course starts with an introduction to elemental concepts of Big Data, then progresses into the programming languages and methodologies used to perform Data Analysis. Finally, we discuss the tools and infrastructure that enable Big Data storage, Distributed Processing, and Scalability.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level database administrators, developers, and analysts who wish to master advanced SQL functionalities for complex data operations and database management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Perform advanced querying techniques using unions, subqueries, and complex joins.
• Add, update, and delete data, tables, views, and indexes with precision.
• Ensure data integrity through transactions and manipulate database structures.
• Create and manage databases efficiently for robust data storage and retrieval.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at software developers, managers, and business analyst who wish to use big data systems to store and retrieve large amounts of data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Query large amounts of data efficiently.
• Understand how Big Data system store and retrieve data
• Use the latest big data systems available
• Wrangle data from data systems into reporting systems
• Learn to write SQL queries in:
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • Hive Query Language (HiveQL/HQL)
  • Redshift 

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of how to work with the SQL language in Oracle database for data extraction at intermediate level.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Advances in technologies and the increasing amount of information are transforming how business is conducted in many industries, including government. Government data generation and digital archiving rates are on the rise due to the rapid growth of mobile devices and applications, smart sensors and devices, cloud computing solutions, and citizen-facing portals. As digital information expands and becomes more complex, information management, processing, storage, security, and disposition become more complex as well. New capture, search, discovery, and analysis tools are helping organizations gain insights from their unstructured data. The government market is at a tipping point, realizing that information is a strategic asset, and government needs to protect, leverage, and analyze both structured and unstructured information to better serve and meet mission requirements. As government leaders strive to evolve data-driven organizations to successfully accomplish mission, they are laying the groundwork to correlate dependencies across events, people, processes, and information.

High-value government solutions will be created from a mashup of the most disruptive technologies:

• Mobile devices and applications
• Cloud services
• Social business technologies and networking
• Big Data and analytics

IDC predicts that by 2020, the IT industry will reach $5 trillion, approximately $1.7 trillion larger than today, and that 80% of the industry's growth will be driven by these 3rd Platform technologies. In the long term, these technologies will be key tools for dealing with the complexity of increased digital information. Big Data is one of the intelligent industry solutions and allows government to make better decisions by taking action based on patterns revealed by analyzing large volumes of data — related and unrelated, structured and unstructured.

But accomplishing these feats takes far more than simply accumulating massive quantities of data.“Making sense of thesevolumes of Big Datarequires cutting-edge tools and technologies that can analyze and extract useful knowledge from vast and diverse streams of information,” Tom Kalil and Fen Zhao of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wrote in a post on the OSTP Blog.

The White House took a step toward helping agencies find these technologies when it established the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative in 2012. The initiative included more than $200 million to make the most of the explosion of Big Data and the tools needed to analyze it.

The challenges that Big Data poses are nearly as daunting as its promise is encouraging. Storing data efficiently is one of these challenges. As always, budgets are tight, so agencies must minimize the per-megabyte price of storage and keep the data within easy access so that users can get it when they want it and how they need it. Backing up massive quantities of data heightens the challenge.

Analyzing the data effectively is another major challenge. Many agencies employ commercial tools that enable them to sift through the mountains of data, spotting trends that can help them operate more efficiently. (A recent study by MeriTalk found that federal IT executives think Big Data could help agencies save more than $500 billion while also fulfilling mission objectives.).

Custom-developed Big Data tools also are allowing agencies to address the need to analyze their data. For example, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computational Data Analytics Group has made its Piranha data analytics system available to other agencies. The system has helped medical researchers find a link that can alert doctors to aortic aneurysms before they strike. It’s also used for more mundane tasks, such as sifting through résumés to connect job candidates with hiring managers.

Apache Beam is an open source, unified programming model for defining and executing parallel data processing pipelines. It's power lies in its ability to run both batch and streaming pipelines, with execution being carried out by one of Beam's supported distributed processing back-ends: Apache Apex, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow. Apache Beam is useful for ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tasks such as moving data between different storage media and data sources, transforming data into a more desirable format, and loading data onto a new system.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to implement the Apache Beam SDKs in a Java or Python application that defines a data processing pipeline for decomposing a big data set into smaller chunks for independent, parallel processing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apache Beam.
• Use a single programming model to carry out both batch and stream processing from withing their Java or Python application.
• Execute pipelines across multiple environments.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• This course will be available Scala in the future. Please contact us to arrange.

This classroom based training session will explore Big Data. Delegates will have computer based examples and case study exercises to undertake with relevant big data tools

Day 1 - provides a high-level overview of essential Big Data topic areas. The module is divided into a series of sections, each of which is accompanied by a hands-on exercise.

Day 2 - explores a range of topics that relate analysis practices and tools for Big Data environments. It does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that enable participants to develop a comprehensive understanding of the common analysis functions and features offered by Big Data solutions.

Day 3 - provides an overview of the fundamental and essential topic areas relating to Big Data solution platform architecture. It covers Big Data mechanisms required for the development of a Big Data solution platform and architectural options for assembling a data processing platform. Common scenarios are also presented to provide a basic understanding of how a Big Data solution platform is generally used. 

Day 4 - builds upon Day 3 by exploring advanced topics relatng to Big Data solution platform architecture. In particular, different architectural layers that make up the Big Data solution platform are introduced and discussed, including data sources, data ingress, data storage, data processing and security. 

Day 5 - covers a number of exercises and problems designed to test the delegates ability to apply knowledge of topics covered Day 3 and 4. 

In this instructor-led, live training in Slovenia, participants will learn the mindset with which to approach Big Data technologies, assess their impact on existing processes and policies, and implement these technologies for the purpose of identifying criminal activity and preventing crime. Case studies from law enforcement organizations around the world will be examined to gain insights on their adoption approaches, challenges and results.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Combine Big Data technology with traditional data gathering processes to piece together a story during an investigation.
• Implement industrial big data storage and processing solutions for data analysis.
• Prepare a proposal for the adoption of the most adequate tools and processes for enabling a data-driven approach to criminal investigation.

Big Data is a term that refers to solutions destined for storing and processing large data sets. Developed by Google initially, these Big Data solutions have evolved and inspired other similar projects, many of which are available as open-source. R is a popular programming language in the financial industry.

When traditional storage technologies don't handle the amount of data you need to store there are hundereds of alternatives. This course try to guide the participants what are alternatives for storing and analyzing Big Data and what are theirs pros and cons.

This course is mostly focused on discussion and presentation of solutions, though hands-on exercises are available on demand.

The course is part of the Data Scientist skill set (Domain: Data and Technology).

Audience

If you try to make sense out of the data you have access to or want to analyse unstructured data available on the net (like Twitter, Linked in, etc...) this course is for you.

It is mostly aimed at decision makers and people who need to choose what data is worth collecting and what is worth analyzing.

It is not aimed at people configuring the solution, those people will benefit from the big picture though.

Delivery Mode

During the course delegates will be presented with working examples of mostly open source technologies.

Short lectures will be followed by presentation and simple exercises by the participants

Content and Software used

All software used is updated each time the course is run, so we check the newest versions possible.

It covers the process from obtaining, formatting, processing and analysing the data, to explain how to automate decision making process with machine learning.

Objective:

Delegates be able to analyse big data sets, extract patterns, choose the right variable impacting the results so that a new model is forecasted with predictive results.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at architects, developers, and administrators who wish to use Denodo Platform to optimize and accelerate data management through data virtualization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Denodo Platform.
• Understand the features and architecture of Denodo Platform.
• Understand the key concepts, benefits, and use cases for data virtualization.
• Learn how to configure and manage the Denodo Platform server.
• Implement data security, user access, and services authentication.
• Apply the tools and techniques for operations monitoring and performance optimization.

Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

In this instructor-led, live training in Slovenia, participants will learn about the technology offerings and implementation approaches for processing graph data. The aim is to identify real-world objects, their characteristics and relationships, then model these relationships and process them as data using a Graph Computing (also known as Graph Analytics) approach. We start with a broad overview and narrow in on specific tools as we step through a series of case studies, hands-on exercises and live deployments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how graph data is persisted and traversed.
• Select the best framework for a given task (from graph databases to batch processing frameworks.)
• Implement Hadoop, Spark, GraphX and Pregel to carry out graph computing across many machines in parallel.
• View real-world big data problems in terms of graphs, processes and traversals.

Apache Hadoop is the most popular framework for processing Big Data on clusters of servers. This course will introduce a developer to various components (HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive and HBase) Hadoop ecosystem.

Kafka Streams is a client-side library for building applications and microservices whose data is passed to and from a Kafka messaging system. Traditionally, Apache Kafka has relied on Apache Spark or Apache Storm to process data between message producers and consumers. By calling the Kafka Streams API from within an application, data can be processed directly within Kafka, bypassing the need for sending the data to a separate cluster for processing.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to integrate Kafka Streams into a set of sample Java applications that pass data to and from Apache Kafka for stream processing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Kafka Streams features and advantages over other stream processing frameworks
• Process stream data directly within a Kafka cluster
• Write a Java or Scala application or microservice that integrates with Kafka and Kafka Streams
• Write concise code that transforms input Kafka topics into output Kafka topics
• Build, package and deploy the application

Audience

• Developers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to learn how to implement a machine learning strategy while maximizing the use of big data.

By the end of this training, participants will:

• Understand the evolution and trends for machine learning.
• Know how machine learning is being used across different industries.
• Become familiar with the tools, skills and services available to implement machine learning within an organization.
• Understand how machine learning can be used to enhance data mining and analysis.
• Learn what a data middle backend is, and how it is being used by businesses.
• Understand the role that big data and intelligent applications are playing across industries.

MLlib is Spark’s machine learning (ML) library. Its goal is to make practical machine learning scalable and easy. It consists of common learning algorithms and utilities, including classification, regression, clustering, collaborative filtering, dimensionality reduction, as well as lower-level optimization primitives and higher-level pipeline APIs.

It divides into two packages:

• spark.mllib contains the original API built on top of RDDs.

• spark.ml provides higher-level API built on top of DataFrames for constructing ML pipelines.

Audience

This course is directed at engineers and developers seeking to utilize a built in Machine Library for Apache Spark

This instructor-led, live training in Slovenia (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to deploy Talend Open Studio for Big Data to simplifying the process of reading and crunching through Big Data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Talend Open Studio for Big Data.
• Connect with Big Data systems such as Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, Amazon EMR and Apache.
• Understand and set up Open Studio's big data components and connectors.
• Configure parameters to automatically generate MapReduce code.
• Use Open Studio's drag-and-drop interface to run Hadoop jobs.
• Prototype big data pipelines.
• Automate big data integration projects.

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.