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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 Structured Data

Structured data refers to any organized data that conforms to a certain format. Structured data can be text files, web files, or any other data displayed in titled columns and rows; it can then be ordered and processed by data-mining tools. This chapter looks at real-life examples of structured data found in day-to-day business as far as the enterprise level and how modeling can be applied to this data. Users will get their hands dirty using the Python language. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the following topics:

  • Deeper insights into structured data
  • Using Python to model structured data
  • Working with IPython