Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3: Build highly effective analytics solutions to gain valuable insight into your big data

by Sridhar Alla

Overview

Explore big data concepts, platforms, analytics, and their applications using the power of Hadoop 3

Key Features

• Learn Hadoop 3 to build effective big data analytics solutions on-premise and on cloud
• Integrate Hadoop with other big data tools such as R, Python, Apache Spark, and Apache Flink
• Exploit big data using Hadoop 3 with real-world examples

Book Description

Apache Hadoop is the most popular platform for big data processing, and can be combined with a host of other big data tools to build powerful analytics solutions. Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3 shows you how to do just that, by providing insights into the software as well as its benefits with the help of practical examples.

Once you have taken a tour of Hadoop 3’s latest features, you will get an overview of HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN, and how they enable faster, more efficient big data processing. You will then move on to learning how to integrate Hadoop with the open source tools, such as Python and R, to analyze and visualize data and perform statistical computing on big data. As you get acquainted with all this, you will explore how to use Hadoop 3 with Apache Spark and Apache Flink for real-time data analytics and stream processing. In addition to this, you will understand how to use Hadoop to build analytics solutions on the cloud and an end-to-end pipeline to perform big data analysis using practical use cases.

By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the analytical capabilities of the Hadoop ecosystem. You will be able to build powerful solutions to perform big data analytics and get insight effortlessly.

What you will learn

• Explore the new features of Hadoop 3 along with HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce
• Get well-versed with the analytical capabilities of Hadoop ecosystem using practical examples
• Integrate Hadoop with R and Python for more efficient big data processing
• Learn to use Hadoop with Apache Spark and Apache Flink for real-time data analytics
• Set up a Hadoop cluster on AWS cloud
• Perform big data analytics on AWS using Elastic Map Reduce

Who this book is for

Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3 is for you if you are looking to build high-performance analytics solutions for your enterprise or business using Hadoop 3’s powerful features, or you’re new to big data analytics. A basic understanding of the Java programming language is required.

Sridhar Alla is a big data expert helping companies solve complex problems in distributed computing, large scale data science and analytics practice. He presents regularly at several prestigious conferences and provides training and consulting to companies. He holds a bachelor's in computer science from JNTU, India. He loves writing code in Python, Scala, and Java. He also has extensive hands-on knowledge of several Hadoop-based technologies, TensorFlow, NoSQL, IoT, and deep learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788624954
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/31/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	482
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Sridhar Alla is a big data expert helping small and big companies solve complex problems, such as data warehousing, governance, security, real-time processing, high-frequency trading, and establishing large-scale data science practices. He is an agile practitioner as well as a certified agile DevOps practitioner and implementer. He started his career as a storage software engineer at Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, and then worked as the chief technology officer at a cyber security firm, eIQNetworks, Boston. His job profile includes the role of the director of data science and engineering at Comcast, Philadelphia. He is an avid presenter at numerous Strata, Hadoop World, Spark Summit, and other conferences. He also provides onsite/online training on several technologies. He has several patents filed in the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science from JNTU, Hyderabad, India, and lives with his wife in New Jersey.
Sridhar has over 18 years of experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R and Go. He also has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing and high performance computing.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Hadoop
2. Overview of Big Data Analytics
3. Big Data Processing with MapReduce
4. Scientific Computing and Big Data Analysis with Python and Hadoop
5. Statistical Big Data Computing with R and Hadoop
6. Batch analytics with Apache Spark
7. Real time analytics with Apache Spark
8. Batch analytics with Apache Flink
9. Stream Processing with Apache Flink
10. Visualizing Big Data
11. Introduction to Cloud Computing
12. Using Amazon Web Services