Where to go next

After reading this book and going through all its tutorials you should have enough skills to let you perform scalable and distributed analysis of very large datasets using the R language. The usefulness of the material contained in this book hugely depends on other tools your current Big Data processing stack includes. Although we have presented you with a wide array of applications and frameworks which are common ingredients of Big Data workflows, for example Hadoop, Spark, SQL, and NoSQL databases, we appreciate that your personal needs and business requirements may vary.

In order to address your particular data-related problems and accomplish Big Data tasks, which may include a myriad of data analytics platforms, other programming languages, and various statistical methods or machine learning algorithms, you may need to develop a specific skill set and make sure to constantly grow your expertise in this dynamically evolving field. Throughout this book, we have included...