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Big Data Simplified
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Big Data Simplified

by Sayan Goswami, Amit Kumar Das, Sourabh Mukherjee
June 2019
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
10h 55m
English
Pearson Education India
Content preview from Big Data Simplified
xvi | Contents
Chapter 8 Working with Big Data inR 191
8.1 Prerequisites 192
8.1.1 Install R in Your System 192
8.1.2 Know How to Manage R Scripts 192
8.1.3 Introduction to Basic R Commands 193
8.2 Exploratory Data Analysis 204
8.2.1 Basic Statistical Techniques for Data Exploration 204
8.2.2 Basic Plots for Data Exploration 207
8.3 R Libraries for Dealing with Large Data Sets 212
8.3.1 ff and ffbase Packages 213
8.3.2 Parallel Package 218
8.3.3 data.table Package 219
8.4 Integrating Hadoop with R 220
8.5 Simple R Program with Hadoop 223
Summary 225
Multiple-choice Questions (1 Mark Questions) 225
Short-answer Type Questions (5 Marks Questions) 226
Long-answer Type Questions (10 Marks Questions) 226
Chapter 9 Working with Big Data ...
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ISBN: 9789353941505