What a Big-Data Business Model Looks Like - R “Ray” Wang. By R “Ray” Wang | 10:00 AM December 6, 2012 The rise of big data is an exciting — if in some cases scary — development for business.
Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs. Apache Pig at WHUG. rApache. Welcome to Apache Pig! Welcome to Apache Flume — Apache Flume. Analyzing Twitter Data with Hadoop. Social media has gained immense popularity with marketing teams, and Twitter is an effective tool for a company to get people excited about its products.
Twitter makes it easy to engage users and communicate directly with them, and in turn, users can provide word-of-mouth marketing for companies by discussing the products. Given limited resources, and knowing we may not be able to talk to everyone we want to target directly, marketing departments can be more efficient by being selective about whom we reach out to. In this post, we’ll learn how we can use Apache Flume, Apache HDFS, Apache Oozie, and Apache Hive to design an end-to-end data pipeline that will enable us to analyze Twitter data. This will be the first post in a series.
Apache Hadoop Distribution. Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop. What is MapReduce? What is Hadoop? What is Hadoop? Putting Big Data to Work. Explaining Big Data.