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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Cloud Computing Applications, Part 2: Big Data and Applications in the Cloud by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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About the Course

Welcome to the Cloud Computing Applications course, the second part of a two-course series designed to give you a comprehensive view on
the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data! In this second course we continue Cloud Computing Applications by exploring how the Cloud opens
up data analytics of huge volumes of data that are static or streamed at high velocity and represent an enormous variety of information. Cloud
applications and data analytics represent a disruptive change in the ways that society is informed by, and uses information. We start the first
week by introducing some major systems for data analysis including Spark and the major frameworks and distributions of an...
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UN

Apr 10, 2018

My understanding of Big Data technologies was really enhanced by this course. I have decided to pursue more of these underlying technologies after this course. Good job

JA

Sep 30, 2019

Very Useful Course. Course material is massive and well prepared for the modern industry demands.

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By Sushil S

Dec 27, 2019

This was an exasperating course - it is at times incoherent, at times just plain reading out of a teleprompter, and at times referring to assignments or slides which do not exist.

The quizzes can be safely tackled by going through 5% of the coursework and that is being generous. A deficit that a programming section could easily overcome.

I do feel bad for the instructors, i am sure it is not what they had in mind when they set out to design the course. Unfortunately it is hardly what one expects from a course part of a paid specialisation.

By David M

Dec 3, 2021

I've never had an instructor that was so clearly phoning it in. What's more, lots of the information presented about how the Cloud works is factually inaccurate, and no one has bothered to correct it. I strongly suggest that working professionals with even a basic level of experience with the Cloud (read: clearly more than the instructor) simply save themselves the aggravation.

By Michał M

May 2, 2017

I've already written a review for part 1 and I have the same opinion about this one. The course is rather poor and not challenging. Only general information about relevant topics that as well read on wikipedia. No exercises, no code assignments. A lot of this content was repeated from first two parts of this specialization.