Data Lakes are centralized repositories that allow you to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. Coursera's Data Lakes catalogue teaches you the principles of creating, managing and utilizing data lakes for big data analytics. You'll learn how to design and implement data lake infrastructure, manage data ingestion, storage, and consumption, and optimize data lake architecture for various analytics needs. You'll also understand data privacy, security, and governance in data lakes. This skill is valuable whether you are a data scientist, data engineer, IT manager, or someone interested in handling big data analytics.