Where to start from to start a career in Big Data
First off What is Big Data?
Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it’s not the amount of data that’s important. It’s what organizations do with the data that matters. Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions and strategic business moves.
Big Data's Potential
The amount of data that’s being created and stored on a global level is almost inconceivable, and it just keeps growing. That means there’s even more potential to glean key insights from business information – yet only a small percentage of data is actually analyzed. What does that mean for businesses? How can they make better use of the raw information that flows into their organizations every day?
I'm glad you're taking this step especially it'll add to your already acquired skills and experience, facilitate and provide a broader intuition of what's going on and how it could be improved.
Mainly you need:
- Statistics, Machine learning, Linear algebra
- Programming using R and/or Python
- Binding business needs to the data
Those courses might overlap in some areas so you might skip some stuff along the way
This is for starters and based on individual preferences one can dig deeper in specific areas
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhudatascience
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/datamining
https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix
https://www.coursera.org/course/introstats
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/social-science
Love data!