Information Session II - Introduction to Hadoop Ecosystem

For someone who wants to get started with big data, the sheer number of tools in the ecosystem always feels overwhelming and confusing. Thus, we are here to give you some guidance. This time, WeCloudData bring you a series of 3 workshops on Big Data. During this workshops, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the big data ecosystem, use cases, how to learn big data, and you will have a chance to work on Apache Spark on your own laptop.

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This is the second workshop on the Introduction to Big Data:

You will learn:

• Hadoop Ecosystem

• MapReduce

• Data Lake

• Hadoop Use Cases

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Speaker:

Shaohua Zhang

Chief Instructor @WeCloudData

Shaohua Zhang over 8 years of experience in applied data science and has built a reputation for building high-performance data science teams. He is currently the co-founder of two startup companies in the data field, WeCloudData and iFuture.

Previously, Shaohua worked as a data scientist at Kik Interactive Inc., helped the billion-dollar Canadian tech unicorn grow its big data initiative. Prior to Kik, he built a high-performance data science team at BlackBerry that focused on building innovative data science solutions for marketing, CRM, and product teams. He specializes in user interest graph, targeted advertising, scalable location intelligence, and large-scale recommendation engines for mobile personalization. He has also got patent in the user interest graph from USPTO. Shaohua has also collaborated with Ryerson’s Data Science Lab on several big data research projects. In his spare time, Shaohua has helped build the big data course at Ryerson University, where he trained more than 150 professionals on big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and data sciences.