eBook of the Day: "Developing big data solutions on Microsoft Azure HDInsight" (aka Hadoop on Azure eBook @ 367 pages...)

Microsoft Downloads - Developing big data solutions on Microsoft Azure HDInsight – eBook Download

This guide explores the use of HDInsight in a range of use cases and scenarios such as iterative exploration, as a data warehouse, for ETL processes, and integration into existing BI systems. The guide is divided into three sections:

• “Understanding Microsoft big data solutions,” provides an overview of the principles and benefits of big data solutions.
• “Designing big data solutions using HDInsight,” contains guidance for designing solutions to meet the typical batch processing use cases inherent in big data processing.
• “Implementing big data solutions using HDInsight,” explores a range of topics such as the options and techniques for loading data into an HDInsight cluster, the tools you can use in HDInsight to process data in a cluster, and the ways you can transfer the results from HDInsight into analytical and visualization tools to generate reports and charts, or export the results into existing data stores such as databases, data warehouses, and enterprise BI systems.

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Date Published: 7/8/2014

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Only 346 pages from patterns and practices group on HDInsight (aka Hadoop)... :/

Now that's a Big Big Data poster...

KDNuggets - Huge Big Data Poster and Reference

What is a Data Scientist, What questions should we ask of databases, Visual techniques, Statistical algorithms, Privacy, and more.

By Bob Gourley, June 2014.
This poster was created by analysts at Altamira.

If you are an analyst, enterprise architect, CIO, CTO, CISO, CFO or even a business executive seeking insights into the nature of modern data solutions you will find the poster below to be a fantastic resource.

Click to expand it to full view. Download and print and post on your wall to periodically review and to continue to ensure you are thinking of the many related elements of analytical solutions. The graphic was produced by three of the most highly regarded practitioners of real world data solutions I know, with contributions and mentorship of by one of the nation’s great enterprise architects.

Download "Do You Know Big Data?" poster here

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Because every big data dude needs a big big data poster!

Get a big jump into Big Data with the "Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data" series

Channel 9 - Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data

Developers, take this course to get an overview of Microsoft Big Data tools as part of the Windows Azure HDInsight and Storage services. As a developer, you'll learn how to create map-reduce programs and automate the workflow of processing Big Data jobs. As a SQL developer, you'll learn Hive can make you instantly productive with Hadoop data.

• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data- (01) Introduction to Big Data
• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data- (02) Introduction to Map Reduce
• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data- (03) Introduction to Hive and HiveQL
• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data- (04) Developing Big Data Applications with .NET
• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data- (05) Operationalize your Big Data Pipeline

Added to the billion and one of things I need to learn ASAP. When I find the time and "want to" this series looks like a great way to get started. I've done a tiny bit of hadoop, and I already know I'm going to need all the help I can get up this learning curve...

Hadoop Coloring Book (no kidding)

SHMsoft blog - Hadoop coloring book for kids

While daddy or mommy is hard at work on Hadoop, or is perhaps training at the Hadoop Illuminated training course, what are the kids to do?

Now there is an option. When the tired developer comes home in the evening, he can tell his kid what he was doing at work - in pictures.

The Hadoop Coloring Book for Kids was created by our talented illustrator and can be downloaded right here.

That's awesome. I printed a copy for myself... err... um... my... kids... yeah... them...  :P

Building big bucks with big data... "Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales" Free eBook (With audio & video)

McKinsey - Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum - eBook: Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales

The goldmine of data available today represents a turning point for marketing and sales leaders

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Putting big data and advanced analytics to work (& Article)

Business Opportunities

• Use Big Data to find new micromarkets (Article)
• Value of big data and advanced analytics (Video)
• Big data, better decisions (Presentation)
• Marketing’s $200 billion opportunity (Video)
• Smart analytics: How marketing drives short-term and long-term growth (Article)
• Know your customers wherever they are (Article)

Insights and action

• Five steps to squeeze more ROI from your marketing (Article)
• Case: advanced analytics disproves common wisdom (Video)
• Getting to “the price is right” (Article)
• Gilt Groupe: Using Big Data, mobile, and social media to reinvent shopping (Interview)
• Under the retail microscope: Seeing your customers for the first time (Article)
• The sales science behind Big Data (Video)
• Name your price: The power of Big Data and analytics (Article)
• Data: The real promise of social/local/mobile (Video)
• Getting beyond the buzz: Is your social media working? (Article)
• Big Data & advanced analytics: Success stories from the front lines (Article)

How to get organized and get started

• Get started with Big Data: Tie strategy to performance (Article)
• What you need to make Big Data work: The pencil (Article)
• Need for speed: Algorithmic marketing and customer data overload (Article)
• Simplify Big Data – or it’ll be useless for sales (Article)
• The challenges of harnessing big data to better understand customers (Video)
• Contributors
• Connect with us

Not a dev thing, but still, big data is big, right?