6 things to make your Big Data project succeed
Some things that you can do to actually make the Big Data project you take on succeed. Â The first thing you need to do is stop trying to make 'Big Data' succeed and instead start focusing on how you educate ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hadoop Interview Questions – HDFS
Are you planning to pursue a career in Hadoop or looking out for a job opportunity in Hadoop? Here is list of Hadoop interview questions which covers HDFS
What is the difference between a Hadoop database and Relational Database?
Hadoop is not ...
Hive Interview Questions
What is Hive?
Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems.
Hive was originally developed at Facebook. It’s now a Hadoop subproject with ...
Hadoop Interview Questions – MapReduce
Looking out for Hadoop Interview Questions that are frequently asked by employers?
What is MapReduce?
It is a framework or a programming model that is used for processing large data sets over clusters of computers using distributed programming.
What are 'maps' and 'reduces'?
'Maps' ...
5 Steps To Master Big Data and Predictive Analytics
As recently as the past two years, one of the seminal issues regarding Big Data was storage, especially with respect to the exponential growth and size of unstructured data that did not fit into databases (e.g., video feeds, PowerPoint presentations). ...
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 ...
Apache Spark for Big Analytics
by Thomas Dinsmore, Director of Product Management at Revolution Analytics
The emergence of Apache Spark is a key development for Big Analytics in 2013.  Spark, an Apache incubator project, is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop. ...