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R in Action Data Analysis and Graphics with R Robert I. Kabacoff Manning – paperback Whether data analysis is your field, your current major or your next career-change ambition, you likely should get this book. Free and open source R is one of the world’s most popular languages for data analysis and visualization. And Robert I. … Continue reading R IN ACTION: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, 2nd Edition – #bookreview
Big Data Principles and best practices of scalable real-time data systems Nathan Marz, with James Warren Manning – paperback Get this book, whether you are new to working with Big Data or now an old hand at dealing with Big Data’s seemingly never-ending (and steadily expanding) complexities. You may not agree with all … Continue reading BIG DATA: A well-written look at principles & best practices of scalable real-time data systems – #bookreview
D3.js in Action Elijah Meeks Manning – paperback The D3.js library is very powerful, and it is full of useful choices and possibilities. But, you should not try to tackle Elijah Meeks’s new book if you are a JavaScript newcomer and not also comfortable with HTML, CSS and JSON. It likewise helps to understand … Continue reading D3.js in Action: A good book packed with data visualization how-to info – #javascript #programming
Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition Alex Holmes (Manning – paperback ) The Hadoop world has undergone some big changes lately, and this hefty, updated edition offers excellent coverage of a lot of what’s new. If you currently work with Hadoop and MapReduce or are planning to take them up soon, give serious consideration … Continue reading HADOOP IN PRACTICE, 2nd Edition – An updated guide to handling some of the ‘trickier and dirtier aspects of Hadoop’ – #programming #bookreview
Cloudera Administration Handbook Rohit Menon Packt Publishing – Kindle, paperback The explosive growth and use of Big Data in business, government, science and other arenas has fueled a strong demand for new Hadoop administrators. The administrators’ key duty is to set up and maintain Hadoop clusters that help process and analyze massive amounts of … Continue reading Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview
Programming MapReduce with Scalding A practical guide to designing, testing, and implementing complex MapReduce applications in Scala Antonios Chalkiopoulos (Packt Publishing – paperback, Kindle) Antonio Chalkiopoulos’s new book has three key goals, and it meets each of them in good, readable fashion. It describes how MapReduce, Hadoop, and Scalding can work together. It suggests … Continue reading Programming MapReduce with Scalding – Using Hadoop & Scala to do some Big Data – #programming #bookreview
Mule in Action, Second Edition David Dossot, John D’Emic, Victor Romero (Manning – paperback) An enterprise service bus (ESB) can help you link together many different types of platforms and applications–old and new–and keep them communicating and passing data between each other. “Mule,” this book’s authors note, “is a lightweight, event-driven enterprise service … Continue reading Mule in Action, 2nd Edition – Want to be an integration developer? Here’s a good start – #bookreview
Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce Learn how to configure your Hadoop cluster to run optimal MapReduce jobs Khaled Tannir (Packt Publishing, paperback, Kindle) Time is money, as the old saying goes. And that saying especially applies to the world of Big Data, where much time, computing power and cash can be consumed while trying to extract profitable … Continue reading Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce – A practical guide to lowering some costs of mining Big Data – #bookreview
Making Sense of NoSQL A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us Dan McCreary and Ann Kelly (Manning, paperback) This is NOT a how-to guide for learning to use NoSQL software and build NoSQL databases. It is a meaty, well-structured overview aimed primarily at “technical managers, [software] architects, and developers.” However, it also is … Continue reading Making Sense of NoSQL – A balanced, well-written overview – #bigdata #bookreview
Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr Learn new ways to build efficient, high performance enterprise search repositories for Big Data using Hadoop and Solr Hrishikesh Karambelkar (Packt – paperback, Kindle) This well-presented, step-by-step guide shows how to use Apache Hadoop and Apache Solr to work with Big Data. Author and software architect Hrishikesh Karambelkar does a … Continue reading Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr – A new how-to guide – #bigdata #java #bookreview
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