We have already discussed big data in Chapter 8. In this chapter, we provide a deeper overview of big data and its challenges. This chapter covers how data is generated, and presents some of the tools and methods used in big data. It also presents an example of MapReduce in Haskell.
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Usually, when we work with data, we need to accomplish mainly four steps: generation, collection, storage, and analysis of data (the latter is covered in the “MapReduce in Haskell ” section). ...