Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxi
About the Authors xxiii
Model Syllabus for Big Data xxv
Lesson Plan xxvii
Chapter 1 A Closer Look at Data 1
Chapter 2 Introducing Big Data 19
Chapter 3 Introducing Hadoop 37
Chapter 4 Introducing MapReduce 67
Chapter 5 Introducing NoSQL 97
Chapter 6 Introducing Spark andKafka 117
Chapter 7 Other BigData Tools andTechnologies 155
Chapter 8 Working with Big Data inR 191
Chapter 9 Working with Big Data inPython 229
Chapter 10 Big Data Applied 261
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