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We know you love singing in the shower, but your roommates and neighbors might appreciate if you kept the music to the professionals. With the Bluetooth Shower Speaker, you can stream your favorite playlists from your smartphone straight to the speaker in your shower. You don’t even need to jump out to change the song, all the buttons you need are right on the speaker.

• Suction cup attaches directly to your shower wall
• Built-in controls allow you to play/pause, skip songs, & turn the power off, right on the speaker
• Supports hands-free calling from the shower

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Bluetooth
• Water-resistant

Compatibility

• Bluetooth compatible devices

Includes

• Bluetooth Shower Speaker (black)

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Bitport.io provides you with a personal cloud storage account specifically for the purpose of downloading and streaming torrents. Simply log in to your account, link to a torrent, and watch it download and save faster than you ever thought possible. From there, you can download or stream the file as you please. Not only does this process go extremely fast, but it eliminates the complexities and dangers of torrenting on your personal hard drive. Best of all, it doesn’t slow down your internet connection – so you can torrent and surf the web at full speed.

‘This Website Could Be The Ultimate All-In-One Torrent Machine,’ Gizmodo

• Provides the security of an encrypted connection
• Downloads large torrents quickly
• Doesn’t slow down shared networks & internet connections
• Doesn’t require the download of a torrent client
• Allows access to the cloud from any device including smartphones, tablets & Apple TV
• Downloads torrents in the cloud – so you can completely turn off your computer at any point
• Checks all downloads w/ a well-known antivirus, NOD32

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

Standard Plan Includes:

• 100 GB of cloud storage
• Slots for download: 10
• Download speed: unlimited
• Traffic: unlimited
• Secured download via HTTPS & antivirus checked
• On-line streaming for all devices
• Updates included

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Access w/ any device with an internet connection including Apple TV, Chromecast, iOS, Android, Mac, PC & more

SOFTWARE LICENSE DETAILS

• Redemption: must redeem within 30 days of purchase
• Length of access: 2 years

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MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creating of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. That’s all well and good, but it means nothing if you don’t have a firm grasp of the data types used within MATLAB. In this course you’ll cover not just data types, but also dive into their functions and how to perform conversions to make analysis and programming a greater experience.

• Access 29 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the essential, unique MATLAB data types necessary for MATLAB programming & data analysis
• Use different data types & structures such as cells, tables, time tables, structures, & map containers
• Convert between different data types

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nouman Azam received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Sceince from University of Regina in 2014. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Bachelor’s in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2007 and 2005, respectively

Nouman has over 10 years of teaching experience. He has taught almost all the major computer science subjects including introduction to computers, computer organization and architecture, operation systems, computer networks, image processing, digital logic design, discrete structures and many others. He has extensive knowledge of tools such as MATLAB, QTSpim, C++, Java and Other academic tools used for teaching and instructing purposes.

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The App Designer utility in MATLAB contains many new design components absent in GUIDE, and allows you to take your GUI-creating skills to a whole new level. Through this course you’ll learn how to optimize App Designer to transform your code into interactive software in more advanced and technical ways.

• Access 41 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Work w/ graphical user interface controls like text boxes, buttons, check boxes, & more
• Become a confident user of App Designer to create great GUI for your programs
• Create your own GUIs from scratch

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nouman Azam received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Sceince from University of Regina in 2014. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Bachelor’s in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2007 and 2005, respectively

Nouman has over 10 years of teaching experience. He has taught almost all the major computer science subjects including introduction to computers, computer organization and architecture, operation systems, computer networks, image processing, digital logic design, discrete structures and many others. He has extensive knowledge of tools such as MATLAB, QTSpim, C++, Java and Other academic tools used for teaching and instructing purposes.

KEY FEATURES

This basic course will teach you how to create graphical user interfaces in MATLAB using the GUIDE utility. Through this course, you’ll transform your code into an attractive piece of software that users can actually interact with. By course’s end, you’ll be able to not just write MATLAB code, but make it far more presentable and useable.

• Access 44 lectures & 2.5 hours of content 24/7
• Become a confident user of GUIDE
• Work w/ graphical user interface controls like text boxes, buttons, check boxes, & more
• Understand how to link code w/ the GUI

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nouman Azam received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Sceince from University of Regina in 2014. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Bachelor’s in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2007 and 2005, respectively

Nouman has over 10 years of teaching experience. He has taught almost all the major computer science subjects including introduction to computers, computer organization and architecture, operation systems, computer networks, image processing, digital logic design, discrete structures and many others. He has extensive knowledge of tools such as MATLAB, QTSpim, C++, Java and Other academic tools used for teaching and instructing purposes.

KEY FEATURES

Tech professional often find they’re faced with limitations when using Excel to analyze data. In this course, you’ll learn how to optimize MATLAB to overcome these limitations. You’ll focus on how to supplement the capabilities of Excel by having access to thousands of customized mathematical and advanced analysis functions, flexible visualization tools, and the ability to automate your analysis workflows – all available in MATLAB.

• Access 25 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Access & import data from Excel files
• Customize the visualization of data
• Learn statistical models that fit w/ data
• Generate reports for sharing w/ others

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nouman Azam received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Sceince from University of Regina in 2014. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Bachelor’s in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2007 and 2005, respectively

Nouman has over 10 years of teaching experience. He has taught almost all the major computer science subjects including introduction to computers, computer organization and architecture, operation systems, computer networks, image processing, digital logic design, discrete structures and many others. He has extensive knowledge of tools such as MATLAB, QTSpim, C++, Java and Other academic tools used for teaching and instructing purposes.

KEY FEATURES

MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory) is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and programming language that is frequently used by engineering and science students. In this course, you will be introduced to MATLAB at a beginner level, and will gradually move into more advanced topics. The key benefit of MATLAB is how it makes programming accessible to everyone, allowing you to resolve complex problems with less complex code.

• Access 51 lectures & 4.5 hours of content 24/7
• Use MATLAB confidently to solve problems
• Run scripts, write code, & do data analysis & visualization
• Solve equations, do math operations, & manipulate matrices
• Formulate your own logic & convert complex problems into MATLAB code & solve them using programming skills

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nouman Azam received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Sceince from University of Regina in 2014. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and Bachelor’s in Computer Sciences from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan in 2007 and 2005, respectively

Nouman has over 10 years of teaching experience. He has taught almost all the major computer science subjects including introduction to computers, computer organization and architecture, operation systems, computer networks, image processing, digital logic design, discrete structures and many others. He has extensive knowledge of tools such as MATLAB, QTSpim, C++, Java and Other academic tools used for teaching and instructing purposes.

KEY FEATURES

Keep your devices charged on the commute with this extremely compact car charger. Just plug in and you can connect your devices to get an extremely fast charge as this little charger delivers a whopping 24W of power.

• Compact, metallic design is the world’s smallest
• Fast charges your device at optimized speed
• 4.8A total output is auto shared when charging two devices
• Built-in safety protections prevent short-circuiting, over-voltage, over-charging, & over-heating

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Input: DC 12V
• Output: 5V, Total 4.8A
• Dimensions: 44mm x 24.5mm x 24.5mm

Compatibility

• iPhone
• iPad
• Android

Includes

• Power Dot Pro Rapid Car Charger

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There’s evil afoot and only you can stop it with these Marvel super drones! Take to the skies with Spider-Man’s super drone to save the planet! Powered by four rotors, with a durable foam body, these drones are easy to fly even for beginners, and provide four channel controls for omni-directional flight and even a 360º flip mode to perform incredible aerial stunts.

• Fly w/ total control thanks to four-channel controls
• Signal your friends w/ the built-in LED lights
• Avoid radio interference w/ the 2.4GHz radio transmitter
• Get back in the air fast after a crash w/ four spare rotor blades included

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Dimensions: 22″ x 22.5″ x 3″
• 4.5 channel built-in gyro
• 360º flip stunt modes
• Flight time: 10-12 minutes

Includes

• Marvel Licensed Spider-Man 2.4GHz 4.5CH RC Super Drone
• 2.4GHz transmitter (4 AA batteries not included)
• 4 spare rotor blades
• Wall charger
• Instruction manual

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Made from minimally treated, vegetable-tanned leather from one of America’s oldest tanneries, these folio wallets were designed to beautifully patina with time, creating a sophisticated look. Plus, it doubles as an iPhone 7 case, protecting your phone while allowing you to carry 3-6 credit cards and folded cash. Reduce the clutter by combining your phone and wallet into one.

• Made in the USA from Horween leather
• Holds 3-6 credit cards & folded cash
• Allows you to reduce the number of items you have to carry w/ you at all times

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Color: midnight blue
• Material: Horween leather
• Made in the USA

Compatibility

• iPhone 7

Includes

• Horween Leather iPhone 7 Folio Wallet Case

KEY FEATURES

Salad is never the same on-the-go, but it’s the perfect nutritious meal to keep you energized all day long. That’s why this Salad-To-Go Container is a lifesaver. Its clever design works to maintain freshness, and keep any salad ingredients from getting soggy. The bottom bowl holds your main greens, while multiple top compartments keep various smaller toppings fresh until you’re ready to mix them in. There’s also a separate dressing container and a clip-on plastic fork for easy serving. Easily washed and durable, this bowl is the way salad should be carried in the 21st century.

• Keeps salad fresh
• Includes compartments for storing toppings & your dressing
• Includes the bowl, topping tray, dressing cup, lid & fork
• Easily washable & durable

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Dimensions: 7.5″ x 5″ x 7″

Includes

• Salad-to-Go Container

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Compared to Hadoop, Spark is a significantly more simple way to process Big Data at speed. It is increasing in popularity with data analysts and engineers everywhere, and in this course you’ll learn how to use Spark with minimum fuss. Starting with the fundamentals, this ebook will help you take your Big Data analytical skills to the next level.

• Access 274 pages of content 24/7
• Get to grips w/ some simple APIs before investigating machine learning & graph processing
• Learn how to use the Spark shell
• Load data & build & run your own Spark applications
• Discover how to manipulate RDD
• Understand useful machine learning algorithms w/ the help of Spark MLlib & R

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Krishna Sankar is a Senior Specialist—AI Data Scientist with Volvo Cars focusing on Autonomous Vehicles. His earlier stints include Chief Data Scientist at http://cadenttech.tv/, Principal Architect/Data Scientist at Tata America Intl. Corp., Director of Data Science at a bioinformatics startup, and as a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. He has been speaking at various conferences including ML tutorials at Strata SJC and London 2016, Spark Summit, Strata-Spark Camp, OSCON, PyCon, and PyData, writes about Robots Rules of Order, Big Data Analytics—Best of the Worst, predicting NFL, Spark, Data Science, Machine Learning, Social Media Analysis as well as has been a guest lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. His occasional blogs can be found at https://doubleclix.wordpress.com/. His other passion is flying drones (working towards Drone Pilot License (FAA UAS Pilot) and Lego Robotics—you will find him at the St.Louis FLL World Competition as Robots Design Judge.

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Apache Kafka is simple describe at a high level bust has an immense amount of technical detail when you dig deeper. This step-by-step, practical guide will help you take advantage of the power of Kafka to handle hundreds of megabytes of messages per second from multiple clients.

• Access 120 pages of content 24/7
• Set up Kafka clusters
• Understand basic blocks like producer, broker, & consumer blocks
• Explore additional settings & configuration changes to achieve more complex goals
• Learn how Kafka is designed internally & what configurations make it most effective
• Discover how Kafka works w/ other tools like Hadoop, Storm, & more

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Nishant Garg has over 14 years of software architecture and development experience in various technologies, such as Java Enterprise Edition, SOA, Spring, Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Spark, Shark, YARN, Impala, Kafka, Storm, Solr/Lucene, NoSQL databases (such as HBase, Cassandra, and MongoDB), and MPP databases (such as GreenPlum).

He received his MS in software systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and is currently working as a technical architect for the Big Data R&D Group with Impetus Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Previously, Nishant has enjoyed working with some of the most recognizable names in IT services and financial industries, employing full software life cycle methodologies such as Agile and SCRUM.

Nishant has also undertaken many speaking engagements on big data technologies and is also the author of HBase Essestials, Packt Publishing.

KEY FEATURES

Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service used to efficiently collect, aggregate, and move large amounts of log data. It’s used to stream logs from application servers to HDFS for ad hoc analysis. This ebook start with an architectural overview of Flume and its logical components, and pulls everything together into a real-world, end-to-end use case encompassing simple and advanced features.

• Access 178 pages of content 24/7
• Explore channels, sinks, & sink processors
• Learn about sources & channels
• Construct a series of Flume agents to dynamically transport your stream data & logs from your systems into Hadoop

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Steve Hoffman has 32 years of experience in software development, ranging from embedded software development to the design and implementation of large-scale, service-oriented, object-oriented systems. For the last 5 years, he has focused on infrastructure as code, including automated Hadoop and HBase implementations and data ingestion using Apache Flume. Steve holds a BS in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MS in computer science from DePaul University. He is currently a senior principal engineer at Orbitz Worldwide (http://orbitz.com/).

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MongoDB is a high-performance, feature-rich, NoSQL database that forms the backbone of the systems that power many organizations. Packed with easy-to-use features that have become essential for a variety of software professionals, MongoDB is a vital technology to learn for any aspiring data scientist or systems engineer. This cookbook contains many solutions to the everyday challenges of MongoDB, as well as guidance on effective techniques to extend your skills and capabilities.

• Access 274 pages of content 24/7
• Initialize the server in three different modes w/ various configurations
• Get introduced to programming language drivers in Java & Python
• Learn advanced query operations, monitoring, & backup using MMS
• Find recipes on cloud deployment, including how to work w/ Docker containers along MongoDB

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Amol Nayak is a MongoDB certified developer and has been working as a developer for over 8 years. He is currently employed with a leading financial data provider, working on cutting-edge technologies. He has used MongoDB as a database for various systems at his current and previous workplaces to support enormous data volumes. He is an open source enthusiast and supports it by contributing to open source frameworks and promoting them. He has made contributions to the Spring Integration project, and his contributions are the adapters for JPA, XQuery, MongoDB, Push notifications to mobile devices, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has also made some contributions to the Spring Data MongoDB project. Apart from technology, he is passionate about motor sports and is a race official at Buddh International Circuit, India, for various motor sports events. Earlier, he was the author of Instant MongoDB, Packt Publishing.

Cyrus Dasadia always liked tinkering with open source projects since 1996. He has been working as a Linux system administrator and part-time programmer for over a decade. He works at InMobi, where he loves designing tools and platforms. His love for MongoDB started in 2013, when he was amazed by its ease of use and stability. Since then, almost all of his projects are written with MongoDB as the primary backend. Cyrus is also the creator of an open source alert management system called CitoEngine. He likes spending his spare time trying to reverse engineer software, playing computer games, or increasing his silliness quotient by watching reruns of Monty Python.

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ElasticSearch is a Lucene-based distributed search server that allows users to index and search unstructured content with petabytes of data. Through this ebook, you’ll be guided through comprehensive recipes covering what’s new in ElasticSearch 5.x as you create complex queries and analytics. By the end, you’ll have an in-depth knowledge of how to implement the ElasticSearch architecture and be able to manage data efficiently and effectively.

• Access 696 pages of content 24/7
• Perform index mapping, aggregation, & scripting
• Explore the modules of Cluster & Node monitoring
• Understand how to install Kibana to monitor a cluster & extend Kibana for plugins
• Integrate your Java, Scala, Python, & Big Data apps w/ ElasticSearch

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Alberto Paro is an engineer, project manager, and software developer. He currently works as freelance trainer/consultant on big data technologies and NoSQL solutions. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications mainly related to big data processing, NoSQL, natural language processing, and neural networks. He began programming in BASIC on a Sinclair Spectrum when he was eight years old, and to date, has collected a lot of experience using different operating systems, applications, and programming languages.

In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on designing multiuser and multidevice web applications. He assisted professors at the university for about a year. He then came in contact with The Net Planet Company and loved their innovative ideas; he started working on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products. In summer 2014, his company was acquired by a big data technologies company, where he worked until the end of 2015 mainly using Scala and Python on state-of-the-art big data software (Spark, Akka, Cassandra, and YARN). In 2013, he started freelancing as a consultant for big data, machine learning, Elasticsearch and other NoSQL products. He has created or helped to develop big data solutions for business intelligence, financial, and banking companies all over the world. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to efficiently use big data solutions (mainly Apache Spark), NoSql datastores (Elasticsearch, HBase, and Accumulo) and related technologies (Scala, Akka, and Playframework). He is often called to present at big data or Scala events. He is an evangelist on Scala and Scala.js (the transcompiler from Scala to JavaScript).

In his spare time, when he is not playing with his children, he likes to work on open source projects. When he was in high school, he started contributing to projects related to the GNOME environment (gtkmm). One of his preferred programming languages is Python, and he wrote one of the first NoSQL backends on Django for MongoDB (Django-MongoDBengine). In 2010, he began using Elasticsearch to provide search capabilities to some Django e-commerce sites and developed PyES (a Pythonic client for Elasticsearch), as well as the initial part of the Elasticsearch MongoDB river. He is the author of Elasticsearch Cookbook as well as a technical reviewer of Elasticsearch Server-Second Edition, Learning Scala Web Development, and the video course, Building a Search Server with Elasticsearch, all of which are published by Packt Publishing.

KEY FEATURES

Hadoop emerged in response to the proliferation of masses and masses of data collected by organizations, offering a strong solution to store, process, and analyze what has commonly become known as Big Data. It comprises a comprehensive stack of components designed to enable these tasks on a distributed scale, across multiple servers and thousand of machines. In this course, you’ll learn Hadoop 2, introducing yourself to the powerful system synonymous with Big Data.

• Access 19 lectures & 1.5 hours of content 24/7
• Get an overview of the Hadoop component ecosystem, including HDFS, Sqoop, Flume, YARN, MapReduce, Pig, & Hive
• Install & configure a Hadoop environment
• Explore Hue, the graphical user interface of Hadoop
• Discover HDFS to import & export data, both manually & automatically
• Run computations using MapReduce & get to grips working w/ Hadoop’s scripting language, Pig
• Siphon data from HDFS into Hive & demonstrate how it can be used to structure & query data sets

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Randal Scott King is the Managing Partner of Brilliant Data, a consulting firm specialized in data analytics. In his 16 years of consulting, Scott has amassed an impressive list of clientele from mid-market leaders to Fortune 500 household names. Scott lives just outside Atlanta, GA, with his children.

KEY FEATURES

Apache Spark is one of the most widely-used large-scale data processing engines and runs at extremely high speeds. It’s a framework that has tools that are equally useful for app developers and data scientists. This book starts with the fundamentals of Spark 2 and covers the core data processing framework and API, installation, and application development setup.

• Access 45 lectures & 5.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the Spark programming model through real-world examples
• Explore Spark SQL programming w/ DataFrames
• Cover the charting & plotting features of Python in conjunction w/ Spark data processing
• Discuss Spark’s stream processing, machine learning, & graph processing libraries
• Develop a real-world Spark application

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Rajanarayanan Thottuvaikkatumana, Raj, is a seasoned technologist with more than 23 years of software development experience at various multinational companies. He has lived and worked in India, Singapore, and the USA, and is presently based out of the UK. His experience includes architecting, designing, and developing software applications. He has worked on various technologies including major databases, application development platforms, web technologies, and big data technologies. Since 2000, he has been working mainly in Java related technologies, and does heavy-duty server-side programming in Java and Scala. He has worked on very highly concurrent, highly distributed, and high transaction volume systems. Currently he is building a next generation Hadoop YARN-based data processing platform and an application suite built with Spark using Scala.

Raj holds one master’s degree in Mathematics, one master’s degree in Computer Information Systems and has many certifications in ITIL and cloud computing to his credit. Raj is the author of Cassandra Design Patterns – Second Edition, published by Packt.

When not working on the assignments his day job demands, Raj is an avid listener to classical music and watches a lot of tennis.

KEY FEATURES

Businesses today have access to more data than ever before, and a key challenge is ensuring that data can be easily accessed and used efficiently. MongoDB makes it possible to store and process large sets of data in a ways that drive up business value. Learning MongoDB will give you the flexibility of unstructured storage, combined with robust querying and post processing functionality, making you an asset to enterprise Big Data needs.

• Access 64 lectures & 40 hours of content 24/7
• Master data management, queries, post processing, & essential enterprise redundancy requirements
• Explore advanced data analysis using both MapReduce & the MongoDB aggregation framework
• Delve into SSL security & programmatic access using various languages
• Learn about MongoDB’s built-in redundancy & scale features, replica sets, & sharding

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Daniel Watrous is a 15-year veteran of designing web-enabled software. His focus on data store technologies spans relational databases, caching systems, and contemporary NoSQL stores. For the last six years, he has designed and deployed enterprise-scale MongoDB solutions in semiconductor manufacturing and information technology companies. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, focusing on semiconductor physics and optoelectronics. He also completed an MBA from the Northwest Nazarene University. In his current position as senior cloud architect with Hewlett Packard, he focuses on highly scalable cloud-native software systems.

KEY FEATURES

Learn how to use ElasticSearch in combination with the rest of the Elastic Stack to ship, parse, store, and analyze logs! You’ll start by getting an understanding of what ElasticSearch is, what it’s used for, and why it’s important before being introduced to the new features of Elastic Search 5.0.

• Access 35 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Go through each of the fundamental concepts of ElasticSearch such as queries, indices, & aggregation
• Add more power to your searches using filters, ranges, & more
• See how ElasticSearch can be used w/ other components like LogStash, Kibana, & Beats
• Build, test, & run your first LogStash pipeline to analyze Apache web logs

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Ethan Anthony is a San Francisco based Data Scientist who specializes in distributed data centric technologies. He is also the Founder of XResults, where the vision is to harness the power of data to innovate and deliver intuitive customer facing solutions, largely to non-technical professionals. Ethan has over 10 combined years of experience in cloud based technologies such as Amazon webservices and OpenStack, as well as the data centric technologies of Hadoop, Mahout, Spark and ElasticSearch. He began using ElasticSearch in 2011 and has since delivered solutions based on the Elastic Stack to a broad range of clientele. Ethan has also consulted worldwide, speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and is insanely curious about human cognition, as related to cognitive dissonance.

KEY FEATURES

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted, cloud-based solutions to help businesses meet all of their needs. Running solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you (or your company) get applications up and running faster while providing the security needed to meet your compliance requirements. This course leaves no stone unturned in getting you up to speed with administering AWS.

• Access 19 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Familiarize yourself w/ the key capabilities to architect & host apps, websites, & services on AWS
• Explore the available options for virtual instances & demonstrate launching & connecting to them
• Design & deploy networking & hosting solutions for large deployments
• Focus on security & important elements of scalability & high availability

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Wayde Gilchrist started moving customers of his IT consulting business into the cloud and away from traditional hosting environments in 2010. In addition to consulting, he delivers AWS training for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and international consulting firms. When he is not out visiting customers, he is delivering training virtually from his home in Florida.

KEY FEATURES

Spruce (or wheatgrass, pun intended) up your work or living space with this luminescent Grasslamp. This unique structure features a graceful glowing light and a compact luxuriant grass garden. The grass alone produce up to 33% of your daily needed oxygen and is easily maintained with just a few sprays of water a day — no soil required. It vegetates in just 15 days to grow completely with hydroponic technology.

• Grows up to 40 different micro-greens in a living sculpture
• 90 LEDs provide 15 lumens of luminous flux
• Provides a refreshing & peaceful way to light up your home or office

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Grass bed measures 3.5″W x 11.2″L
• No soil or fertilizer required
• Care instructions: wipe with a damp cloth, spray daily with water for greens growth

Includes

• Valsfer Grasslamp

KEY FEATURES

The best way to learn a programming language is through practical, hands-on experience, and this course will teach you Python through building a fully-functional security camera. The application you’re building will detect movement in video footage and subsequently execute an action, such as sending out an email or SMS. Between theory and actual hands-on work, by course’s end you’ll have a nuanced understanding of Python.

• Access 36 lectures & 4.5 hours of content 24/7
• Create a fully-functional smart security camera using a Raspberry Pi or the webcam on your device
• Learn summation notation
• Explore image similarity metrics like sum squared errors, mean squared errors, & structural similarity
• Understand how to perform video processing w/ Python

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Software developer and founder of ZENVA. Since 2012, Pablo Farias Navarro has been teaching online how to create games, apps and websites to over 150,000 students through the Udemy and Zenva Academy platforms, and created content for companies such as Amazon and Intel.

Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific, and has run live programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore. Pablo holds a Master in Information Technology (Management) degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile.

KEY FEATURES

Python is an especially valuable tool for visualizing data, and this course will cover a variety of techniques that will allow you to visualize data using the Python library, Matplotlib. Beginning with an intro to statistics, you’ll extend into a variety of plots that will cover most use-cases.

• Access 20 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Explore bar charts, line plots, & scatter plots
• Learn about advanced plots such as Quiver plots, 3D lines, & 3D surfaces
• Discover subplots & how they’re used

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Software developer and founder of ZENVA. Since 2012, Pablo Farias Navarro has been teaching online how to create games, apps and websites to over 150,000 students through the Udemy and Zenva Academy platforms, and created content for companies such as Amazon and Intel.

Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific, and has run live programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore. Pablo holds a Master in Information Technology (Management) degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile.

KEY FEATURES

Everybody loves their filters, and in this course you’ll learn how to build your very own, just like your favorites on Instagram and Snapchat. You’ll build an app that allows you to load a photo, edit its contrast, brightness, and gray-scale, and then create and apply custom filters. In addition to the practical construction, you’ll also delve into the Python theory behind it all.

• Access 27 lectures & 3.5 hours of content 24/7
• Discuss concepts such as matrices, color models, brightness, contrast, & convolution from a mathematical perspective
• Install Virtual Box
• Perform matrix operations using Numpy & OpenCV
• Discover a variety of Python libraries

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Software developer and founder of ZENVA. Since 2012, Pablo Farias Navarro has been teaching online how to create games, apps and websites to over 150,000 students through the Udemy and Zenva Academy platforms, and created content for companies such as Amazon and Intel.

Pablo is a member of the Intel Innovator Program in the Asia Pacific, and has run live programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore. Pablo holds a Master in Information Technology (Management) degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a Master of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile.

KEY FEATURES

Learning a new programming language can take huge amounts of time – especially if you have to drive to a physical classroom every day. This crash online course, however, will put you on the fast track to learning Python, teaching you everything you need to know about this powerful general-purpose language in just two sittings.

• Access 28 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn Python language fundamentals
• Progress into more advanced topics like functions & classes
• Fortify your learning by completing challenges

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Brett Romero is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has started several businesses. Bitesizebschool.com is his latest business, where he writes about applying business principles to the real world and solving technology issues that every online business faces. He has also written desktop applications in languages running from Delphi to C# winforms/WPF, as well as built ASP.NET webforms and MVC based applications. He is also an iOS developer and currently has seven apps in the iTunes App Store.

KEY FEATURES

Totally new to programming? No worries, this course is geared towards beginners, showing you detailed examples of how to code with Python, one of the most common and powerful general-purpose languages around. If you’ve ever had an interest in programming, here’s where to start!

• Access 93 lectures & 5.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn Python basics through exercises
• Discover variables, strings, lists, & more
• Explore tuples, dictionaries, decision statements, & more

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Vignesh Rajendiran has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and changed his profession to become a software developer due to his passion for computer programming. He learned to program online (mostly self-taught) and now he is working as a software engineer at a multi-national company. Vignesh teaches on many online platforms to share his knowledge with others, who are also trying to achieve their passion towards programming.

KEY FEATURES

Python can be especially useful in finance as it has powerful analytical and predictive modeling capabilities. In this course, you’ll learn just how Python can be applied in the world of finance. Even if you know absolutely nothing about coding, you’ll learn in-demand, real-world skills that can make your resume jump out or help you make a difference in your own financial portfolio.

• Access 104 lectures & 6.5 hours of content 24/7
• Build correlations between stocks, estimate risk & rate of return
• Explore the difference between diversifiable & non-diversifiable risk
• Perform regression analysis
• Measure a regression’s explanatory power w/ R^2
• Use Monte Carlo in a corporate finance context for options & stock pricing
• Apply the Black Scholes formula

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

365 Careers is a firm specializing in high-end business, financial, data science, and office productivity training programs. Our growing list of courses includes Excel (Microsoft Excel for Beginner and Advanced users), PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Accounting, Finance 101, Investment Banking, Financial Modeling, Company Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis, Job Hunting, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Decision Making and Negotiation, and Python trainings. Our goal is to provide to our students the practical instruments they will need in order to perform successfully at their future workplace.

KEY FEATURES

This beginner course will get you up to speed with the very basics of Python, one of the most important programming languages used in a wide variety of industries today. Give your resume a boost while learning practical skills that can take your career a long way!

• Access 46 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Set up Python & install the IDE
• Learn about operators in Python
• Use for loops & while loops
• Discover the different types of statements in Python
• Master Python fundamentals

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Joydip Ghosh loves learning new skills, and since 2012 has been teaching people everything he knows. Through his online learning business, he creates courses that teach you how to become the better version of yourself with all kinds of skills.

Joydip specializes in coding languages like C, Java, C++, and PHP, as well as ethical hacking and Big Data. He also has business expertise.

KEY FEATURES

Python is an incredibly efficient language as you’ll learn in this quick course that you can complete in as little as a day. Python is frequently used in scientific fields for academic research and applied work due in part to this great efficiency. This example-driven course is created to give you a deeper understanding of the language.

• Access 84 lectures & 2.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn Python by completing projects
• Get a single, all-inclusive learning experience for Python 2.X or Python 3.X
• Discover the essential Python fundamentals in as little as one day

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Andreas Exadaktylos has over 16 years of experience in teaching as an instructor, especially in Microsoft Excel, and has a passion for software products that make people’s lives easier. He runs his own computer learning school, Futurekids, as well as the online video tutorial platform Mellon Training, and enjoys building websites and utilizing SEO techniques to improve them.

KEY FEATURES

Python has a range of machine learning applications, making it invaluable for developers, especially ones building engines for the web. This course focuses on building procedural machine learning processes from the ground up so you can get a more nuanced understanding of how machines process data.

• Access 48 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Get thorough explanations & comments to understand why things are being done in certain ways
• Take code walkthroughs to see a machine learning app work in real time
• Write machine learning processes from scratch

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Stone River eLearning was founded in 2011, and has taught over 300,000 students through its website and reseller partners since its founding. Their courses focus on programming, development and design.

KEY FEATURES

Apple’s SpriteKit is the leading game engine for producing 2D games for iOS. In this course, you’ll build clones of Breakout, Pong, and Space Invaders, making both the code and the design for the games from scratch. Even if you’ve never coded, you’ll get caught up on SpriteKit and learn how to use it to make super simple games as well as more complex ones.

• Access 51 lectures & 10.5 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how to navigate SpriteKit’s interface
• Put games you’ve built in SpriteKit in the App Store
• Add code to your game’s objects in Xcode
• Apply what you’ve learned to further experiment in SpriteKit or any other game development framework

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac OS X
• iOS

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive. This company produces XBOX 360, iPhone, iPad, android, HTML 5, ad-games and more. Mammoth Interactive recently sold a game to Nickelodeon! John has been contracted by many different companies to provide game design, audio, programming, level design and project management. To this day John has 40 commercial games that he has contributed to. Several of the games he has produced have risen to number 1 in the Apple’s app store. In his spare time John likes to play ultimate Frisbee, cycle and work out.

KEY FEATURES

Regardless of whether you’ve coded for iOS before, this course will show the fundamentals of making apps in Xcode and Swift for tvOS. Starting with Apple’s proprietary language, Swift 3, you’ll understand how to leverage what you learn to other Apple platforms as well. Best of all, you’ll get hands-on practice as you build a Quiz app, Dialogue Tree app, and Interactive Story app from scratch.

• Access 18 lectures & 9 hours of content 24/7
• Build three tvOS apps from scratch
• Learn the core tools for programming for iOS & macOS

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac OS X
• iOS

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive. This company produces XBOX 360, iPhone, iPad, android, HTML 5, ad-games and more. Mammoth Interactive recently sold a game to Nickelodeon! John has been contracted by many different companies to provide game design, audio, programming, level design and project management. To this day John has 40 commercial games that he has contributed to. Several of the games he has produced have risen to number 1 in the Apple’s app store. In his spare time John likes to play ultimate Frisbee, cycle and work out.

KEY FEATURES

Regardless of whether you’ve coded for iOS before, this course will show the fundamentals of making apps in Xcode and Swift for watchOS. Starting with Apple’s proprietary tools, Swift 3 and Xcode, you’ll understand how to leverage what you learn to other Apple platforms as well. To understand the design and functionality of a watchOS app, you’ll build a simple app of your own in Xcode.

• Access 25 lectures & 13 hours of content 24/7
• Cover key Xcode topics like labels, dates, timers, switches, sliders, pickers, tables, context menus, & more
• Add images & movies into your Apple Watch apps
• Enable notifications
• Learn the core tools for programming for iOS & macOS

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac OS X
• iOS

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive. This company produces XBOX 360, iPhone, iPad, android, HTML 5, ad-games and more. Mammoth Interactive recently sold a game to Nickelodeon! John has been contracted by many different companies to provide game design, audio, programming, level design and project management. To this day John has 40 commercial games that he has contributed to. Several of the games he has produced have risen to number 1 in the Apple’s app store. In his spare time John likes to play ultimate Frisbee, cycle and work out.

KEY FEATURES

The iOS 11 public beta is here, and now is the time to learn how to develop for Apple by mastering iOS 10. This massive, 102-hour course will immerse you in the basics of iOS programming, and get you up to speed with iOS 10 specifics, like the significantly improved artificial intelligence and Siri function. Before you know it, you’ll be ready to dive headlong into all the brand new features of iOS 11.

• Master iOS 10 development w/ 102 hours of content
• Learn the basics of coding in Swift & building apps in iOS 10
• Work w/ iOS 10’s new facial recognition capability
• Use SiriKit to build apps that function better w/ Siri
• Optimize iOS 10’s significantly improved artificial intelligence
• Build games w/ SpriteKit Games
• Develop apps for TVOS, iPad, iPhone & Apple Watch

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming, download for offline access
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac required
• Xcode required (free to download)

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive. This company produces XBOX 360, iPhone, iPad, android, HTML 5, ad-games and more. Mammoth Interactive recently sold a game to Nickelodeon! John has been contracted by many different companies to provide game design, audio, programming, level design and project management. To this day John has 40 commercial games that he has contributed to. Several of the games he has produced have risen to number 1 in the Apple’s app store. In his spare time John likes to play ultimate Frisbee, cycle and work out.

KEY FEATURES

Once you’ve gotten up to speed with iOS 10, watchOS, and tvOS, it’s time to master the newest features of the brand new iOS 11. Across this enormous course, you’ll build over 30 apps from scratch while covering SpriteKit, Firebase, and all of the exciting, brand new features that iOS 11 has to offer.

• Access 100 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how to code in Swift 4.0
• Design apps from scratch in Xcode
• Build apps quickly from start to finish
• Become an app developer

Note: Full course content to be added by September.

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming, download for offline access
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Mac required
• Xcode required (free to download)

THE EXPERT

John Bura has been programming games since 1997 and teaching since 2002. John is the owner of the game development studio Mammoth Interactive. This company produces XBOX 360, iPhone, iPad, android, HTML 5, ad-games and more. Mammoth Interactive recently sold a game to Nickelodeon! John has been contracted by many different companies to provide game design, audio, programming, level design and project management. To this day John has 40 commercial games that he has contributed to. Several of the games he has produced have risen to number 1 in the Apple’s app store. In his spare time John likes to play ultimate Frisbee, cycle and work out.

KEY FEATURES

The secret to filming stunning aerial videography? Drones. Capture dynamic footage formerly only possible via helicopter or plane, and more efficiently and inexpensively than you thought possible. You’ll master the essentials of drone-powered videography–ranging from drone flying safety measures to footage editing techniques–and will be ready to turn out polished videos guaranteed to impress viewers by course’s end.

• Use drones to capture aerial footage w/ over 2 hours of content
• Understand important FAA regulations & safety tips
• Learn how to maneuver a drone like an expert
• Choose the right drone
• Utilize first person view (FPV) to craft dynamic footage
• Understand important safety measures for flying drones
• Edit your footage in post-processing
• Effectively use your aerial imaging to craft a story
• Travel w/ your drone without any fuss

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Mark Richardson is a full time photographer and videographer who has built custom multirotors and has been capturing aerial imagery for over two years. He’s traveled worldwide with his current quadcopter, (an Inspire 1) and has mastered the techniques for getting stunning aerial shots while maintaining safety. Mark has hundreds of hours of multirotor flight time under his belt, with a zero crash record on the Inspire 1.