Re: Java Courses for Scripters/Big Data Geeks

2013-07-17 Thread xiufeng liu
You could also take a look the flowing resources for data science: http://datascienc.es/resources/ http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/ Regards, Xiufeng Liu On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Yasmin Lucero wrote: > Ha. I have the same problem. It is hard to find resources aimed at the > right level

Re: Java Courses for Scripters/Big Data Geeks

2013-07-17 Thread Yasmin Lucero
Ha. I have the same problem. It is hard to find resources aimed at the right level. I have been pretty happy with the book Head First Java by Kathy Sierra and Bert someone er other. y Yasmin Lucero Senior Statistician, Gravity.com Santa

Re: Java Courses for Scripters/Big Data Geeks

2013-07-17 Thread John Meagher
The Data Science course on Coursera has a pretty good overview of map reduce, Hive, and Pig without going into the Java side of things. https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci. It's not in depth, but it is enough to get started. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:52 PM, John Omernik wrote: > Hey all - >

Java Courses for Scripters/Big Data Geeks

2013-07-17 Thread John Omernik
Hey all - I was wondering if there were any "shortcut" Java courses out there. As in, I am not looking for a holistic learn everything about Java course, but more of a "So you are a big data/hive geek and you get Python/Perl pretty well, but when you try to understand Java your head explodes and