The Fifth Elephant 2012

• Pig is a high-level platform for creating MapReduce programs used with Hadoop for analyzing Big Data.
• This is a 2 hour workshop on intro to Pig.
• Workshop aims at live-coding introductory session for analyzing Big Data using Pig.

Outline

This workshop will include discussion on:

• Basics of Hadoop
• Basics of Pig and PigLatin
• Pig vs MapReduce
• Pig vs SQL

And also:

• Live-coding session on Pig for analyzing huge sample data.
• Checking the visualization of Pig MapReduce Jobs with Twitter Ambrose

Requirements

• Basic understanding of Hadoop, HDFS and MapReduce.
• Laptop with VMware Player or Oracle VirtualBox installed.
• Please download Cloudera Demo VM from https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera’s+Hadoop+Demo+VM
• Alternatively, a USB flash drive will be distributed with a VMware image of 64 bit Ubuntu Server 12.04 [Precise Pangolin] with Hadoop, HBase, Sqoop, Hive and Pig installed and configured using Apache Bigtop.

Speaker bio

Prashanth Babu has 9+ years of experience in software development predominantly in Java and JavaEE. He is working with NTT DATA Global Delivery Services (previously Keane India Pvt. Ltd.) on an R & D initiative on Big Data using Apache Hadoop Ecosystem. Also, an avid Android enthusiast with experience in Android App Development.

http://gplus.to/Prashanth

Links

• http://twitter.com/P7h
• http://in.linkedin.com/in/prashbabu
• http://pig.apache.org/
• http://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer
• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera’s+Hadoop+Demo+VM