Hi,

Your friend is right, Big Data is really hot these days as this technology is used for analyzing and getting intelligence from big enterprise data set.

Here are some of the important Certificate in Big Data Analytics:

1. Certified Analytics Professional -- INFORMS

2. Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences -- Columbia University

3. Certificate in Engineering Excellence Big Data Analytics and Optimization (CPEE) -- INSOFE

4. Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate -- Stanford University

5. Certificate in Analytics: Optimizing Big Data ? University of Delaware

6. EMC Data Scientist Associate (EMCDSA) -- EMC

7. Cloudera Certified Professional: Data Scientist (CCP:DS) -- Cloudera

8. Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH) -- Cloudera

9. Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCAH) -- Cloudera

10. Cloudera Certified Specialist in Apache HBase (CCSHB) -- Cloudera

11. Revolution R Enterprise Professional -- Revolution Analytics

12. Vertica Big Data Solutions V1 - HP

13. Vertica Big Data Solutions Administrator V1 - HP

14. IBM Certified Data Architect -- Big Data

15. IBM Certified Data Engineer - Big Data

16. SAS Certified Big Data Professional

If you can afford you can go for anyone of above certification. Other software development institutes are also providing Big Data training which will also help you in getting good.

So, as per your requirement you can do Big Data certification courses.

You can check our online Big Data and Hadoop training which is good for anyone planning to start career in these technologies.

Thanks