Chapter 1. Big Data Analytics with Java

Big data is no more just a buzz word. In almost all the industries, whether it is healthcare, finance, insurance, and so on, it is heavily used these days. There was a time when all the data that was used in an organization was what was present in their relational databases. All the other kinds of data, for example, data present in the log files were all usually discarded. This discarded data could be extremely useful though, as it can contain information that can help to do different forms of analysis, for example, log files data can tell about patterns of user interaction with a particular website. Big data helps store all these kinds of data, whether structured or unstructured. Thus, all the log files, ...

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