Data Just Right: Introduction to Large-Scale Data & Analytics

Data Just Right: Introduction to Large-Scale Data & Analytics

by Michael Manoochehri
Released December 2013
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 9780133359084

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Book description

Making Big Data Work: Real-World Use Cases and Examples, Practical Code, Detailed Solutions

Large-scale data analysis is now vitally important to virtually every business. Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets; distributed cloud computing offers the resources to store and analyze them; and professionals have radically new technologies at their command, including NoSQL databases. Until now, however, most books on “Big Data” have been little more than business polemics or product catalogs. Data Just Right is different: It’s a completely practical and indispensable guide for every Big Data decision-maker, implementer, and strategist.

Michael Manoochehri, a former Google engineer and data hacker, writes for professionals who need practical solutions that can be implemented with limited resources and time. Drawing on his extensive experience, he helps you focus on building applications, rather than infrastructure, because that’s where you can derive the most value.

Manoochehri shows how to address each of today’s key Big Data use cases in a cost-effective way by combining technologies in hybrid solutions. You’ll find expert approaches to managing massive datasets, visualizing data, building data pipelines and dashboards, choosing tools for statistical analysis, and more. Throughout, the author demonstrates techniques using many of today’s leading data analysis tools, including Hadoop, Hive, Shark, R, Apache Pig, Mahout, and Google BigQuery.

Coverage includes

  • Mastering the four guiding principles of Big Data success—and avoiding common pitfalls

  • Emphasizing collaboration and avoiding problems with siloed data

  • Hosting and sharing multi-terabyte datasets efficiently and economically

  • “Building for infinity” to support rapid growth

  • Developing a NoSQL Web app with Redis to collect crowd-sourced data

  • Running distributed queries over massive datasets with Hadoop, Hive, and Shark

  • Building a data dashboard with Google BigQuery

  • Exploring large datasets with advanced visualization

  • Implementing efficient pipelines for transforming immense amounts of data

  • Automating complex processing with Apache Pig and the Cascading Java library

  • Applying machine learning to classify, recommend, and predict incoming information

  • Using R to perform statistical analysis on massive datasets

  • Building highly efficient analytics workflows with Python and Pandas

  • Establishing sensible purchasing strategies: when to build, buy, or outsource

  • Previewing emerging trends and convergences in scalable data technologies and the evolving role of the Data Scientist 

    • Table of contents

    1. About This eBook
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright Page
    4. Dedication Page
    5. Contents
    6. Foreword
    7. Preface
      1. Who This Book Is For
      2. Why Now?
      3. The Internet of . . . Everything
      4. A Journey toward Ubiquitous Computing
      5. How This Book Is Organized
    8. Acknowledgments
    9. About the Author
    10. I: Directives in the Big Data Era
      1. 1. Four Rules for Data Success
        1. When Data Became a BIG Deal
        2. Data and the Single Server
        3. The Big Data Trade-Off
        4. Anatomy of a Big Data Pipeline
        5. The Ultimate Database
        6. Summary
    11. II: Collecting and Sharing a Lot of Data
      1. 2. Hosting and Sharing Terabytes of Raw Data
        1. Suffering from Files
        2. Storage: Infrastructure as a Service
        3. Choosing the Right Data Format
        4. Character Encoding
        5. Data in Motion: Data Serialization Formats
        6. Summary
      2. 3. Building a NoSQL-Based Web App to Collect Crowd-Sourced Data
        1. Relational Databases: Command and Control
        2. Relational Databases versus the Internet
        3. Nonrelational Database Models
        4. Leaning toward Write Performance: Redis
        5. Sharding across Many Redis Instances
        6. NewSQL: The Return of Codd
        7. Summary
      3. 4. Strategies for Dealing with Data Silos
        1. A Warehouse Full of Jargon
        2. Hadoop: The Elephant in the Warehouse
        3. Data Silos Can Be Good
        4. Convergence: The End of the Data Silo
        5. Summary
    12. III: Asking Questions about Your Data
      1. 5. Using Hadoop, Hive, and Shark to Ask Questions about Large Datasets
        1. What Is a Data Warehouse?
        2. Apache Hive: Interactive Querying for Hadoop
        3. Shark: Queries at the Speed of RAM
        4. Data Warehousing in the Cloud
        5. Summary
      2. 6. Building a Data Dashboard with Google BigQuery
        1. Analytical Databases
        2. Dremel: Spreading the Wealth
        3. BigQuery: Data Analytics as a Service
        4. Building a Custom Big Data Dashboard
        5. The Future of Analytical Query Engines
        6. Summary
      3. 7. Visualization Strategies for Exploring Large Datasets
        1. Cautionary Tales: Translating Data into Narrative
        2. Human Scale versus Machine Scale
        3. Building Applications for Data Interactivity
        4. Summary
    13. IV: Building Data Pipelines
      1. 8. Putting It Together: MapReduce Data Pipelines
        1. What Is a Data Pipeline?
        2. Data Pipelines with Hadoop Streaming
        3. A One-Step MapReduce Transformation
        4. Managing Complexity: Python MapReduce Frameworks for Hadoop
        5. Summary
      2. 9. Building Data Transformation Workflows with Pig and Cascading
        1. Large-Scale Data Workflows in Practice
        2. It’s Complicated: Multistep MapReduce Transformations
        3. Cascading: Building Robust Data-Workflow Applications
        4. When to Choose Pig versus Cascading
        5. Summary
    14. V: Machine Learning for Large Datasets
      1. 10. Building a Data Classification System with Mahout
        1. Can Machines Predict the Future?
        2. Challenges of Machine Learning
        3. Apache Mahout: Scalable Machine Learning
        4. MLBase: Distributed Machine Learning Framework
        5. Summary
    15. VI: Statistical Analysis for Massive Datasets
      1. 11. Using R with Large Datasets
        1. Why Statistics Are Sexy
        2. Strategies for Dealing with Large Datasets
        3. Summary
      2. 12. Building Analytics Workflows Using Python and Pandas
        1. The Snakes Are Loose in the Data Zoo
        2. Python Libraries for Data Processing
        3. Building More Complex Workflows
        4. iPython: Completing the Scientific Computing Tool Chain
        5. Summary
    16. VII: Looking Ahead
      1. 13. When to Build, When to Buy, When to Outsource
        1. Overlapping Solutions
        2. Understanding Your Data Problem
        3. A Playbook for the Build versus Buy Problem
        4. My Own Private Data Center
        5. Understand the Costs of Open-Source
        6. Everything as a Service
        7. Summary
      2. 14. The Future: Trends in Data Technology
        1. Hadoop: The Disruptor and the Disrupted
        2. Everything in the Cloud
        3. The Rise and Fall of the Data Scientist
        4. Convergence: The Ultimate Database
        5. Convergence of Cultures
        6. Summary
    17. Index

    Product information

    • Title: Data Just Right: Introduction to Large-Scale Data & Analytics
    • Author(s): Michael Manoochehri
    • Release date: December 2013
    • Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
    • ISBN: 9780133359084