
OBJECTIVE
CHAPTER
8
Working with
Big Data inR
8.1 Prerequisites
8.2 Exploratory Data Analysis
8.3 R Libraries for Dealing with
Large Data Sets
8.4 Integrating Hadoop with R
8.5 Simple R Program with Hadoop
In the last seven chapters, we were going through an
exciting journey. We started learning the characteristics
of traditional relational databases and pointed its inef-
ciencies to support large-scale (orshould we say web-
scale) enterprise systems. Then we came across learning
the concept of Big Data, which not only addressed
the challenges due to the growing, unstructured data
volume, but also highlighted the effects of Big Data ...