Hi Saurabh, In your area, Big Data Partnership provides Spark training: http://www.bigdatapartnership.com/
As Sean mentioned, there is a certification program via a partnership between O'Reilly Media and Databricks http://www.oreilly.com/go/sparkcert That is offered in two ways, in-person at events such as Strata + Hadoop World http://strataconf.com/ and also an online test managed through Kryterion. Sign up on the O'Reilly page. There are also two MOOCs starting soon on edX through University of California: Intro to Big Data with Apache Spark by Prof. Anthony Joseph, UC Berkeley begins Feb 23 https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-big-data-apache-spark-uc-berkeleyx-cs100-1x#.VK1pkmTF8gk Scalable Machine Learning Prof. Ameet Talwalkar, UCLA begins Apr 14 https://www.edx.org/course/scalable-machine-learning-uc-berkeleyx-cs190-1x#.VK1pkmTF8gk For coaching, arguably you might be best to talk with consultants especially for near-term needs. Contact me off-list and I can help provide intros in your area. Thanks, Paco On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Saurabh Agrawal <saurabh.agra...@markit.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can you please suggest some of the best available trainings/ coaching and > professional certifications in Apache Spark? > > > > We are trying to run predictive analysis on our Sales data and come out > with recommendations (leads). We have tried to run CF but we end up getting > absolutely bogus results!! A training that would leave us hands on to do > our job effectively is what we are after. In addition to this, if this > training could provide a firm ground for a professional certification, that > would be an added advantage. > > > > Thanks for your inputs > > > > Regards, > > Saurabh Agrawal > > ------------------------------ > This e-mail, including accompanying communications and attachments, is > strictly confidential and only for the intended recipient. Any retention, > use or disclosure not expressly authorised by Markit is prohibited. This > email is subject to all waivers and other terms at the following link: > http://www.markit.com/en/about/legal/email-disclaimer.page > > Please visit http://www.markit.com/en/about/contact/contact-us.page? for > contact information on our offices worldwide. > > MarkitSERV Limited has its registered office located at Level 4, Ropemaker > Place, 25 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9LY and is authorized and > regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority with registration number 207294 >
