Big Data for Chimps

Part I. Introduction: Theory and Tools

In Chapters 1–4, we’ll introduce you to the basics about Hadoop and MapReduce, and to the tools you’ll be using to process data at scale using Hadoop.

We’ll start with an introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, and then we’ll dive into MapReduce and explain how it works. Next, we’ll introduce you to our primary dataset: baseball statistics. Finally, we’ll introduce you to Apache Pig, the tool we use to process data in the rest of the book.

In Part II, we’ll move on to cover different analytic patterns that you can employ to process any data in any way needed.