You may be wondering where you should start your Big Data learning journey. After a bit research, I found Big Data University is a good place to try.
Big Data University is an online educational site run by new and experienced Hadoop, Big Data and DB2 users who want to learn, contribute with course materials, or look for job opportunities. And it is hosted on the Cloud and using Moodle 2 course management system enabled to run on DB2. It is in the Beta stage.
The site includes free and fee-based courses delivered by experienced professionals and teachers.
When I saw DB2 but not other databases (including open source ones), I guess this site is either sponsored by IBM or run by IBM product lovers. Anyway, it is no harmful for you to learn Big Data.
In order to study in this "university", you should register by either using your Google, Facebook, Yahoo or ChannelDB2 account or creating your Big Data University account. Most of IT or data professionals should already have at least an account from Google, Facebook or Yahoo. If you don't use DB2, you might not even know ChannelDB2.
According to the site statistics, there are 63339 registered students (as of today - Feb.2, 2013 - not sure if it publishes the latest number). If you put this number under the perspective of real universities, it is about 3 times size of Harvard (about 20,000 students) or Stanford (about 18,000).
So, you want to join?
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