I am a Data Science enthusiast, learning Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning for the last couple of years. Besides doing online courses I have completed the Big Data at Scale from WeCloud data. I would highly recommend WeCloud Data to anyone who wants to learn practical/ applied Data Science and Big Data (Spark, Hadoop, AWS stack, Databases, SQL, NoSQL, Python, Machine Learning). Because I found the team of Shaohua (Instructor) very helpful. Shaohua is highly experienced in the field. The teaching style is very user-friendly where he breaks down difficult topics easy to understand.

After listening and comparing big data courses in different places in Toronto, I went to sign up for all of the WeCloudData courses right after Shaohua’s info session without any hesitation. He is not only very knowledgable and experienced but also teaches so clearly and methodologically, which is way beyond my expectations. I have finished Python and big data courses up far, both courses are well-organized, project-oriented all along. You can start by applying what you have learned, exploring your own tools from there, and also building up step by step as you learn more throughout the courses. Whenever I got stuck, I could get all the help I need from the instructor, TA, and teammates, sometimes I also got motivated by other teams and pushed forward by my instructor to continue working on my project by doing in-class progress report and presentations. The things I have learned here and the final project presentation I did benefit me a lot by showing so much confidence in my big data interviews and helping me handing job offers. Quite often, I feel I know more than my interviewers! Many thanks to WeCloudData, it is a great learning platform with a great instructor, TAs and classmates!!

I took the Big Data at Scale course with WeCloudData. The course introduces the latest big data tools and platforms such as Apache Spark and Amazon Web Services, as well as real-world use cases and industrial best practices. The course also includes an end-to-end group project which will definitely be something you can be proud of. I chose this course basically because my company uses Apache Spark and Hadoop distributed system, and I would like to learn more about it. Surprisingly, what I learned from this course has been far beyond my expectation! I wish I knew WeCloudData earlier so that I wouldn’t have been that struggled at work. Before taking this course, I barely understood some log errors such as “Fail to start name node” and could only write simple queries in spark-shell. Now, I learned the theories behind and improved my programming skills. I am even capable to teach my peers colleagues some materials. Moreover, all the best practices and use cases taught in class gave me great insight of how to build pipelines efficiently and let me practice to think about the big picture of the design. It is actually something I appreciate the most since when I did the project, the overall design architecture just came into my mind immediately after my team defined the scope. I would also like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the instructor Shaohua in this course. He is extraordinarily knowledgeable and experienced, one of the best instructors I have ever seen! The way he approaches to a theory is really straightforward and easy to understand. He is nice and patient while answering questions as well and always makes sure every student is on the right track. The program managers of WeCloudData are kind and amiable too. It was a great pleasure to talk to them!