Re: Looking for a place to start

2012-03-09 Thread Fernando Doglio
Thank you, everyone, I'll try to take a look at the book suggested by Dave and Alexander... you're right, I was just looking for something else aside from logs, but it could be a good start, you're right :) Thanks again! On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Gauthier, Alexander < alex.gauth...@teradata

RE: Looking for a place to start

2012-03-06 Thread Dave Shine
I suggest you get a copy of Hadoop, The Definitive Guide by Tom White. I found it very informative when I was first starting out. As for sample "big data" , the book uses weather data from the NCDC. You can download it from https://github.com/tomwhite/hadoop-book/tree/master/input/ncdc/all D