Setup Big Data Development Environment for free on Mac or Windows

Big Data is open source and there are many technologies one need to learn to be proficient in Big Data eco system tools such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Sqoop etc. This course will cover how to set up development environment on personal computer or laptop using distributions such as Cloudera or Hortonworks. Both Cloudera and Hortonworks provide virtual machine image which contain all Big Data eco system tools packaged. This free course will provide

Comparison of Virtualization software such as Virtualbox and VMWare
Step by step instructions to set up virtualization software such as virtualbox or VMWare
Choosing Cloudera or Hortonworks image
Step by step instructions to set up VM using chosen image
Setup necessary additional components such as MySQL database and log generation tool
Review HDFS, Map Reduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Spark etc