https://www.quantnet.com/bigdata/

Everyone talks about Big Data; in this course, you will learn how to use Big Data to enhance your career or start a new career in finance. The course is taught by a leading Big Data in finance practitioner and designed for current and future practitioners.

This is a 4-month Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with an Open Access component for 10,000 participants, and a Professional Access component providing access to real-world financial data and high performing computing resources, dedicated teaching assistants, and direct interaction with the instructor.

Course Topics

DATA PROGRAMMING
Prepare your data. This covers all the practical aspects of cleaning, storing, updating and managing Big Data.
A Big Data Low-Level Toolbox (more)
Thinking in Parallel (more)
Databases for Big Data (more)
Hadoop (more)
Best practices for managing data at scale (more)
Managing Big Data: Part 1, Ingesting Data (more)
Managing Big Data: Part 2, Processing Data (more)
Managing Big Data: Part 3, Outputting Data (more)
Managing Big Data Within Hadoop (more)
DATA INSIGHTS
Know your data. This is where data manipulation and visualization tools come in.
Big Data with Excel (more)
Big Data with R (more)
DATA ANALYSIS
Profit from the data. This shows you how, using cutting-edge examples.
CVA as a Big Data and Big Compute Problem (more)
Data Mining for Big Data (more)
Machine Learning for Big Data (more)
Data Mining and Machine Learning Using Hadoop (more)
DATA PROJECT
Project – Building a Look-Ahead Ticker Plant (more)

Important Dates

November 19, 2013 - Sign Up for Open Access begins
December 15, 2013 - open access Big Data MOOC Forum opens
December 15, 2013 - pre-requisite materials, Part 1, posted on the Big Data MOOC Forum (requires Sign Up)
January 15, 2014 - pre-requisite materials, Part 2, posted on the Big Data MOOC Forum (requires Sign Up)
February 15, 2014 - pre-requisite materials, Part 3, posted on the Big Data MOOC Forum (requires Sign Up)
March 15, 2014 - Sign Up for Professional Access component opens with priority given to people who already signed up for Open Access
March 15, 2014 - Professional Access Big Data MOOC Forum opens
April 16, 2014 - Big Data MOOC classes begin