Introducing Windows Azure Hdinsight 
by Avkash Chauhan, Valentine Fontama, Michele Hart, Wee Hyong Tok, Buck Woody
In Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight, we cover what big data really means, how you can use it to your advantage in your company or organization, and one of the services you can use to do that quickly-specifically, Microsoft's HDInsight service. We start with an overview of big data and Hadoop, but we don't emphasize only concepts in this book-we want you to jump in and get your hands dirty wor...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2014
Data Visualization For Dummies
by Mico Yuk, Stephanie Diamond
Big data is big news! Every company, industry, not-for-profit, and government agency wants and needs to analyze and leverage datasets that can quickly become ponderously large. Data visualization software enables different industries to present information in ways that are memorable and relevant to their mission. This full-color guide introduces you to a variety of ways to handle and synthesize data in much...
Price: $5.00 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
by Rodney Heisterberg, Alakh Verma
Creating Business Agility provides a game plan for integrating technology to build a smarter, more customer-centric business. Using a series of case studies as examples throughout, the book describes the agility that comes from collaborative commerce, and provides key decision makers the implementation roadmap they need to build a successful business ecosystem. The focus is on Business Agility Readiness in ...
Price: $37.88 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
by Stephen R. Davis
C++ For Dummies, 7th Edition is the best-selling C++ guide on the market, fully revised for the 2014 update. With over 60% new content, this updated guide reflects the new standards, and includes a new Big Data focus that highlights the use of C++ among popular Big Data software solutions. The book provides step-by-step instruction from the ground up, helping beginners become programmers and allowing interm...
Price: $12.00 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
by Byron Ellis
Real-time analytics is the hottest topic in data analytics today. In Real-Time Analytics - expert Byron Ellis teaches data analysts technologies to build an effective real-time analytics platform. This platform can then be used to make sense of the constantly changing data that is beginning to outpace traditional batch-based analysis platforms.The author is among a very few leading experts in the field. He ...
Price: $33.90 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2014
Pro Apache Hadoop, 2nd Edition
by Sameer Wadkar, Madhu Siddalingaiah, Jason Venner
Pro Apache Hadoop, Second Edition brings you up to speed on Hadoop - the framework of big data. Revised to cover Hadoop 2.0, the book covers the very latest developments such as YARN (aka MapReduce 2.0), new HDFS high-availability features, and increased scalability in the form of HDFS Federations. All the old content has been revised too, giving the latest on the ins and outs of MapReduce, cluster design, ...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
by Sebastian Gutierrez
Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists, according to a ...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Better Business Decisions from Data
by Peter Kenny
Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you're a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success provides the answers to these ques...
Price: $29.44 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Hadoop in Practice, 2nd Edition
by Alex Holmes
Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition provides over 100 tested, instantly useful techniques that will help you conquer big data, using Hadoop. This revised new edition covers changes and new features in the Hadoop core architecture, including MapReduce 2. Brand new chapters cover YARN and integrating Kafka, Impala, and Spark SQL with Hadoop. You'll also get new and updated techniques for Flume, Sqoop, and...
Price: $30.77 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
by James Miller
Splunk is the definitive technology solution used to manage the ever-growing volumes of machine-generated data. This technology is indispensable for industries involved in big data analysis, online services, education, finance, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications. So, having Splunk experience will be relevant for a long time to come!This book will first take you through the evolution of Splunk and ho...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014