Chapter 2
Common Use Cases for Big Data in Hadoop
In This Chapter
Extracting business value from Hadoop
Digging into log data
Moving the (data) warehouse into the 21st century
Taking a bite out of fraud
Modeling risk
Seeing what’s causing a social media stir
Classifying images on a massive scale
Using graphs effectively
Looking toward the future
By writing this book, we want to help our readers answer the questions “What is Hadoop?” and “How do I use Hadoop?” Before we delve too deeply into the answers to these questions, though, we want to get you excited about some of the tasks that ...
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