This course is designed to introduce you to the capabilities of BigSheets. BigSheets is a component of InfoSphere BigInsights. It provides the analyst the ability to be able to visualize and analyze data stored HDFS using a spreadsheet type interface without any programming.

If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course.

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• Describe how BigSheets can help with the business and technical challenges of big data
• Create BigSheets workbooks
• From data stored in HDFS
• Directly from data generated by an application
• Use BigSheets readers to properly parse data in BigSheets
• Create sheets within workbooks
• List the different types of functions available when creating a new sheet
• Create charts to more easily visualize BigSheets results
• Export BigSheets data to a web browser or a file in HDFS

This course is for business analysts planning on working with BigSheets.

Having attended InfoSphere BigInsights Foundation (DW612) or equivalent knowledge would be very useful.

• Introduction to BigSheets
• Making Data Available to BigSheets
• Navigating a Workbook
• Expressions and Functions
• BigSheets Visualizations