by Joseph Adler
If you're considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You'll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from me...
Price: $8.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jon Brisbin, Michael Hunger
You can choose several data access frameworks when building Java enterprise applications that work with relational databases. But what about big data? This hands-on introduction shows you how Spring Data makes it relatively easy to build applications across a wide range of new data access technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop.Through several sample projects, you'll learn how Spring Data provides a cons...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
by Alan Gates
This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop. With Pig, you can batch-process data without having to create a full-fledged application - making it easy for you to experiment with new datasets.Programming Pig introduces new users to Pig, and provides experienced users with comprehensive coverage on key features such as t...
Price: $5.59 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Q. Ethan McCallum, Stephen Weston
It's tough to argue with R as a high-quality, cross-platform, open source statistical software product - unless you're in the business of crunching Big Data. This concise book introduces you to several strategies for using R to analyze large datasets. You'll learn the basics of Snow, Multicore, Parallel, and some Hadoop-related tools, including how to find them, how to use them, when they wor...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Amit Rathore
Clojure in Action is a hands-on tutorial for the working programmer who has written code in a language like Java or Ruby, but has no prior experience with Lisp. It teaches Clojure from the basics to advanced topics using practical, real-world application examples. Blow through the theory and dive into practical matters like unit-testing and environment set-up, all the way through building a scalable web-app...
Price: $4.75 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2011
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition 
by Tom White
Discover how Apache Hadoop can unleash the power of your data. This comprehensive resource shows you how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with the Hadoop framework - an open source implementation of MapReduce, the algorithm on which Google built its empire. Programmers will find details for analyzing datasets of any size, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoo...
Price: $4.22 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2010
by Jason Venner
You've heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte - scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it's been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it's completely open-source. But what exactly is it, and more importantly, how do you even get a Hadoop cluster up and running?From Apress, the name you...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2009