Prep for SparkR: Take the free R Programming class from Coursera!

The Big Data World has spoken, and the future is in-memory analytics. Get ahead of the curve a little and prep yourself for the upcoming AmpLab release of SparkR.

"SparkR is an R package that provides a light-weight frontend to use Apache Spark from R. SparkR exposes the Spark API through the RDD class and allows users to interactively run jobs from the R shell on a cluster."

In this four-week course, you will learn about R programing via weekly lecture videos, quizzes, and programming assignments. You can take this for free or pay a nominal fee for a verified certification.

https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog

Later, if you're interested, you can atend a 3-day deep dive into Spark development offered by Cloudera:

http://university.cloudera.com/instructor-led-training/spark-training

When I (Rachel) start the course, I'll start a discussion thread to track progress and assist with problems. Please join!