Leverage Existing Skills to Find Career In Bigdata

Bigdata is a term that has become real fantacy in IT world. We see people offering training, looking for trianing, people looking for tutorials on big data learnings across the web. In this scenario it would be really interesting to know that you can leverage what you have learnt, your current work experience and knowledge to find a prospective role in bigdata space. Though bigdata talks much on statistical analysis involving building of models, predicting business outcomes to solve business issues it is still possible to find entry into this much lucrative space if you have ever learnt (or) worked in one or more of the following technologies 1) UNIX/LINUX - This is the most common operating system in which systems are built. Hence knowledge of UNIX including commands come handy 2) Programming basics - This can be as complex as Java/C++, scripting language such as python, perl, groovy, shell that can be considered even if not you are aware of R the statistical programming, MATLAB, Python that are widely used by data analyst 3) Learn basics of Hadoop and its components - This is not so difficult. Basic understanding of hadoop framework and its constituent components like HDFS the Hadoop distributed file system, pig, hive, apache spark, nosql databases etc will be sufficient for starting role 4) Learn basics of SQL - Technology is an evolution of fundamentals and all data science relies heavily on SQL programming language with little bit of massaging. In bigdata analytical space this goes beyond basics covering complex analytical SQL functions. So, learn sql if you are not aware of 5) Domain knowledge - Though not mandate learn basics of domain you will be working on like finance, banking, healthcare, life science before taking up the job as this will help with understanding business issues once you have some good grep on domain related terminologies