SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1

SAS Enterprise Guide is a boon for those who like a point and click type of software. It does not reqiure any coding and in turn codes for you. For those who are not good at or not interested in coding, this is the thing for you.

Its not an open source software like R but has several good features and the great deal of stability, due to which big companies still go for it.

It improves the data quality and programming quality by giving a visual of the complete process flows and the links between them. The interface might look intimidating in the first but one you go along with the software you will find it helpful. Its easy to find errors from the flow. It provides with a better understanding of the underlying business process.

The drag and drop pieces are well structured. There are context sensitive help for understanding the code. One good feature is that its easy to generate multiple output types after we run the query.

Hadoop certification - Hortonworks or Cloudera

How does certification help?

Professionals with certifications mostly have an edge over others. Many of these certifications are designed in a way that the knowledge gained during the preparation phase, to clear these certifications are at par with the industry standards.

Cloudera or Hortonworks - Which one is better for hadoop certification?

Planning to get on a hadoop certification, the question must have crossed your mind. I did a little research over the internet and found that the certifications of cloudera are popular. Of course popularity cant be accounted for quality. Cloudera offers higher number of courses when compared to Hortonworks and is highly recognised by recruiters. It has been longer and has larger market share. Actually Hortonworks is a young startup in this area and might catch up soon. My opinion is that it doesnt really matters which certification you have, but having one in your resume would help in the resume selection process.