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Big Data

Big Data

Technologies for Business

Edition 1 | Copyright 2021 | Publication Date: December 2020

Arben Asllani, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Overview


The availability of big data is increasing as is the need for people to prepare and analyze it. Big Data Technologies for Business seeks to fill this need by presenting the material in a manner accessible to a broad audience including non-technical managers, business students and other professionals. Big data technologies are no longer the exclusive province of dedicated computer programmers. This book assumes little or no prior programming experience. Topics are introduced conceptually, intuitively, with pseudocode, and with fully worked examples including code. In this manner, students learn to use various essential technologies including, among others, Hadoop, Spark and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

Features


Explore big data topics intuitively and conceptually
Each technology topic is first introduced intuitively followed by a conceptual discussion to assure an overall understanding.

Enjoy the continuity of free integrated cloud-based technologies
The educators/students free version of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is used as a platform to access the Hadoop cluster and its ecosystems, throughout.

Enhance student learning with video introductions
A video for each chapter presents step-by-step instructions for setting up and accessing the numerous features of a big data environment and related software. These videos can be used to reinforce learning or to free up classroom time for a broader discussion of the material, its significance, and application.

Use the leading big data technologies
Students learn-by-doing with hands-on exercises central to the book. To assure success, Python, Java, or Scala code is provided in the book when necessary and on the companion website. Prior experience with these languages is not necessary to complete the activities.

Focus on business applications
The discussion, examples and exercises feature business uses to illustrate how big data technologies are transforming many businesses and have the potential for transforming others.

Table of Contents


Detailed Table of Contents PDF

Chapter 1: Big Data and Analytics
Chapter 2: Cloud Computing and Big Data
Chapter 3: Distributed File Systems
Chapter 4: Anatomy of MapReduce
Chapter 5: Apache Pig and Pig Latin
Chapter 6: Apache Hive and HiveQL
Chapter 7: Moving Data with Sqoop
Chapter 8: NoSQL Databases
Chapter 9: BigTable and HBase
Chapter 10: Introduction to Spark
Chapter 11: Resilient Distributed Datasets
Chapter 12: Applications with Spark
Chapter 13: Iterative Processing and Data Streaming with Spark

Appendix A: Shell Commands in Linux and HDFS
Appendix B: Creating a Database Instance in AWS

About the Author


Arben (Beni) Asllani is the Department Head and Rollins Professor of Data Analytics at The University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has over 25 years of experience teaching and researching Data Analytics and related topics.

Dr. Asllani has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. In 2020, he received a Fulbright scholarship to teach at EPOKA University in Albania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1998.

Arben Asllani

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