Big data for dummies /
Big data
by Judith Hurwitz, Alan Nugent, Dr. Fern Halper, and Marcia Kaufman.
- xxii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- For dummies .
Includes index.
Grasping the fundamentals of big data -- Examining big data types -- Old meets new: distributed computing -- Digging into the big data technology components -- Virtualization and how it supports distributed computing -- Examining the cloud and big data -- Operational databases -- MapReduce fundamentals -- Exploring the world of Hadoop -- The Hadoop foundation and ecosystem -- Appliances and big data warehouses -- Defining big data analytics -- Understanding text analytics and big data -- Customized approaches for analysis of big data -- Integrating data sources -- Dealing with real-time data streams and complex event processing -- Operationalizing big data -- Applying big data within your organization -- Security and governance for big data environments -- The importance of big data to business -- Analyzing data in motion: a real-world view -- Improving business processes with big data analytics: a real-world view -- Ten big data best practices -- Ten great big data resources -- Ten big data do's and don'ts.
Explains big data in detail and discusses how to select and implement a solution, security concerns to consider, data storage and presentation issues, analytics, and much more.
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Big data -- Social aspects. Internet -- Social aspects. Electronic information resources -- Social aspects. Technological innovations -- Social aspects. Social change.