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Introducing Data Science
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Introducing Data Science

by Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman, Mohamed Ali
May 2016
Beginner
320 pages
10h 39m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 5. First steps in big data

This chapter covers

  • Taking your first steps with two big data applications: Hadoop and Spark
  • Using Python to write big data jobs
  • Building an interactive dashboard that connects to data stored in a big data database

Over the last two chapters, we’ve steadily increased the size of the data. In chapter 3 we worked with data sets that could fit into the main memory of a computer. Chapter 4 introduced techniques to deal with data sets that were too large to fit in memory but could still be processed on a single computer. In this chapter you’ll learn to work with technologies that can handle data that’s so large a single node (computer) no longer suffices. In fact it may not even fit on a hundred computers. ...

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