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Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By: James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya

Overview of this book

Modeling and managing data is a central focus of all big data projects. In fact, a database is considered to be effective only if you have a logical and sophisticated data model. This book will help you develop practical skills in modeling your own big data projects and improve the performance of analytical queries for your specific business requirements. To start with, you’ll get a quick introduction to big data and understand the different data modeling and data management platforms for big data. Then you’ll work with structured and semi-structured data with the help of real-life examples. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you’ll use the SQL Developer Data Modeler to create your own data models containing different file types such as CSV, XML, and JSON. You’ll also learn to create graph data models and explore data modeling with streaming data using real-world datasets. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and develop efficient data models for varying data sizes easily and efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Modeling Twitter Feeds Using Python

Twitter data is used in both academic and enterprise research to extract business intelligence from tweets of particular people or organizations. This chapter uses Twitter feeds as big data and uses it in Python to model it according to tips and tricks learned in this book. This book tries to consume the data in a raw format, transform it into the correct format, model it using Python, and interpret the model thus produced. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to do the following:

  • Discover the nature of Twitter feed data
  • Model Twitter data with Python
  • Explore more about pandas, NumPy, and other Python libraries