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Big Data Analytics with R

You're reading from   Big Data Analytics with R Leverage R Programming to uncover hidden patterns in your Big Data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466457
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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HDInsight - a multi-node Hadoop cluster on Azure

In Online Chapter , Pushing R Further (https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/5396_6457OS_PushingRFurther.pdf), we briefly introduced you to HDInsight-a fully-managed Apache Hadoop service that comes as part of the Microsoft Azure platform and is specifically designed for heavy data crunching. In this section, we will deploy a multi-node HDInsight cluster with R and RStudio Server installed and will perform a number of MapReduce jobs on smart electricity meter readings (~414,000,000 cases, four variables, ~12 GB in size) of the Energy Demand Research Project available to download from UK Data Service's online Discover catalog at https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7591 . But before we can tap into the actual data crunching, we need to set up and prepare an HDInsight cluster to process our data. The configuration of HDInsight is not the simplest task to accomplish, especially if we need...

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