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You're reading from Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3 Build highly effective analytics solutions to gain valuable insight into your big data

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788628846

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Hadoop

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Sridhar Alla

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Hadoop FREE CHAPTER

2. Overview of Big Data Analytics

3. Big Data Processing with MapReduce

4. Scientific Computing and Big Data Analysis with Python and Hadoop

5. Statistical Big Data Computing with R and Hadoop

6. Batch Analytics with Apache Spark

7. Real-Time Analytics with Apache Spark

8. Batch Analytics with Apache Flink

9. Stream Processing with Apache Flink

10. Visualizing Big Data

11. Introduction to Cloud Computing

12. Using Amazon Web Services

Distributed computing using Apache Hadoop

We are surrounded by devices such as the smart refrigerator, smart watch, phone, tablet, laptops, kiosks at the airport, ATMs dispensing cash to you, and many many more, with the help of which we are now able to do things that were unimaginable just a few years ago. We are so used to applications such as Instagram, Snapchat, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest that it is next to impossible to go a day without access to such applications. Today, cloud computing has introduced us to the following concepts:

Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service

Behind the scenes is the world of highly scalable distributed computing, which makes it possible to store and process Petabytes (PB) of data:

1 EB = 1024 PB (50 million Blu-ray movies)
1 PB = 1024 TB (50,000 Blu-ray movies)
1 TB = 1024 GB (50 Blu-ray movies...

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Authors (1)

Sridhar Alla

Sridhar?Alla?is the co-founder and CTO of Blue Whale Consulting and is expert at helping companies (big and small) define their vision for systems and capabilities that will allow them to establish a strategic execution plan to deal with the ever-growing data collected to support analytics and product teams. He has very experienced at dealing with all aspects of data collection, security, governance, and processing as part of end-to-end big data analytics and machine learning initiatives (including predictive modeling, deep learning, and ML automation). Sridhar?is a published book author and an avid presenter at numerous conferences, including Strata, Hadoop World, and Spark Summit.? He also has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems.? He has over 18 years' experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R, and Go, and has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Flink, TensorFlow, Keras, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing, and high-performance computing. Sridhar lives with his wife and daughter in New Jersey and in his spare time loves blogging and coaching organizations on next-generation advancements in technology and their alignment with business goals.

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