Learn the technology that started it all – MapReduce! MapReduce is at the heart of Hadoop, and offers a programming model for processing massive data sets on a cluster in the cloud. Get hands-on with lots of examples using the Python programming language, ranging from simple tasks all the way to anlayzing social networks and making movie recommendations with real data sets.
Check out my one-hour screencast courses at O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online! Learn the ins and outs of Analyzing Big Data with Hadoop, AWS, and EMR, Analyzing Big Data with Spark and Amazon EMR, or Introduction to the Amazon Elasticsearch Service available to subscribers of Safari.
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