In this exercise, we will be attempting to count the number of occurrences of each word in one of the longest novels ever written. For the exercise, we have selected the book Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus written by Georges and/or Madeleine de Scudéry between 1649-1653. The book is considered to be the second longest novel ever written, per the related list on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels). The novel consists of 13,905 pages across 10 volumes and has close to two million words.
To begin, we need to launch the Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop Quickstart VM in VirtualBox and double-click on the Cloudera Quickstart VM instance:
It will take some time to start up as it initializes ...
