AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Amazon EMR
Using Amazon EMR and Tableau to Analyze and Visualize Data
Rahul Bhartia is an AWS Solutions Architect Introduction Hadoop provides a great ecosystem of tools for extracting value from data in various formats and sizes. Originally focused on large-batch processing with tools like MapReduce, Pig and Hive, Hadoop now provides many tools for running interactive queries on your data, such as Impala, Drill, and Presto. […]
Getting Started with Amazon EMR Bootstrap Actions
Steve McPherson is a Senior Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce Note: This post was updated 2/8/16. The Presto bootstrap action documented in the original post has been deprecated because EMR now offers a Presto-Sandbox as a full-fledged EMR application. For details, see the EMR sandbox. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a fully managed Hadoop-as-a-service platform […]
Building a Recommender with Apache Mahout on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
This is a guest post by Andrew Musselman, who as chief data scientist leads the global big data practice from the technical side at Accenture. He is a PMC member on the Apache Mahout project and is writing a book on data science for O’Reilly. Accenture is an APN Big Data Competency Partner. This post […]