Building a MapReduce Version 2 program
We have done sufficient groundwork to understand the Hadoop data storage and computation model in previous sections. Now we can write our first MapReduce program to put our knowledge in practice.
Problem statement
In this problem, we will calculate the yearly average stock price of IBM from the daily stock quotes.
Publicly traded companies have fluctuating stock prices. The stock prices are available on various finance portals where you can track day-by-day movement in stock prices. Such datasets are in the public domain. We will download one such dataset that contains the historical daily stock price of IBM (Symbol: IBM). The historical stock price of IBM is available on Yahoo Finance in various formats on ...
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