How to learn Hadoop like a boss
Big data is reshaping the landscape of business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, the massive processing power of the latest technology, and tools like Hadoop, organisations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from ...
Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Information from SAS and TDWI Research
The purpose of this report is to accelerate users’ understanding of the many new products and practices based on Hadoop technologies that have emerged in recent years. While Hadoop usage is a minority practice today, ...
6 reasons your Big Data Hadoop project will fail in 2014
By Steve Jones
Ok so Hadoop is the bomb, Hadoop is the schizzle, Hadoop is here to solve world hunger and all problems.  Now I've talked before about some of the challenges around Hadoop for enterprises but here are six reasons that ...
Hadoop Cluster Interview Questions
Which are the three modes in which Hadoop can be run?
The three modes in which Hadoop can be run are:
1. standalone (local) mode
2. Pseudo-distributed mode
3. Fully distributed mode
What are the features of Stand alone (local) mode?
In stand-alone mode there are ...
Hadoop Resources
History of Hadoop
Spotlight on the early history of Hadoop
The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data
Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop
What is MapReduce?
"Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture" series in YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPBkvYh-ss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD6PUdf3Js
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eib_H_zCEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDybXl212Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-piFBP4fE
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.htmlÂ
What is Hadoop?
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/what-is-apache-hadoop.html
http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-it-really-means-when-someone-says-hadoop
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1209hadoopbigdata/
What is HDFS?
The paper covers most of ...
Introduction to Apache Hive and Pig
Apache Hive is a framework that sits on top of Hadoop for doing ad-hoc queries on data in Hadoop. Hive supports HiveQL which is similar to SQL, but doesn't support the complete constructs of SQL.
Hive coverts the HiveQL query into ...
How to Get the Best Out of Big Data Solutions
Data has become the new raw material for businesses. And that’s how it should be in order to meet the dynamic needs of the current age. Thus, access to considerably large amounts of data and information always helps an organisation ...
When to use Pig Latin versus Hive SQL?
Once your big data is loaded into Hadoop, what’s the best way to use that data? You’ll need some way to filter and aggregate the data, and then apply the results for something useful. Collecting terabytes and petabytes of web ...
BigData TechCon-Learn HOW TO Master Big Data, Mar 31-Apr 2, Boston
Big Data TechCon, March 31-April 2, Boston, is the “how-to” big data event. Use code BIGDATA for $200 discount. www.bigdatatechcon.com
Plan now to attend Big Data TechCon, March 31-April 2 in Boston, to learn HOW-TO accommodate the terabytes and petabytes of data ...
5 lessons we learned about data science in 2013
Most people know what marketing executives do every day. They try to catch people’s attention through email, ads, tweets, and press releases. As for data scientists, well, their work is not nearly as well understood.
That’s been slowly changing this year ...