Book Image

Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Big data is the current requirement. Most organizations produce huge amount of data every day. With the arrival of Hadoop-like tools, it has become easier for everyone to solve big data problems with great efficiency and at minimal cost. Grasping Machine Learning techniques will help you greatly in building predictive models and using this data to make the right decisions for your organization. Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook gives readers insights into learning and mastering big data via recipes. The book not only clarifies most big data tools in the market but also provides best practices for using them. The book provides recipes that are based on the latest versions of Apache Hadoop 2.X, YARN, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Apache Spark, Mahout and many more such ecosystem tools. This real-world-solution cookbook is packed with handy recipes you can apply to your own everyday issues. Each chapter provides in-depth recipes that can be referenced easily. This book provides detailed practices on the latest technologies such as YARN and Apache Spark. Readers will be able to consider themselves as big data experts on completion of this book. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to implement a big data warehouse for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing Twitter data into HDFS using Flume


Flume is another tool that helps us import data from various other sources into HDFS. In this recipe, we are going to see how to import Twitter data using Flume. Twitter data is a great source of information provided by individuals. This data can be used to do sentiment analytics of certain products, persons, companies, and so on.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a Hadoop cluster running with you as well as the latest version of Flume installed on it. Here I am using Flume 1.6.

How to do it...

To import data using Flume, first of all we need to have a Twitter account and we need to generate credentials. These credentials would be used by Flume agent to import the data. Flume by default supports sources to import data from Twitter, so there is no need to do anything else other than having an account and generating credentials.

Following is the step-by-step process to generate Twitter authorization tokens: