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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

Web log analytics


Web logs is data generated by web servers running a website. This use case is applicable to domains where companies have their websites hosted and want to know more about their website performance and customer behavior on the website.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have an up and running Hadoop cluster. I have uploaded the data of some sample web logs from

https://github.com/deshpandetanmay/hadoop-real-world-cookbook/blob/master/data/mylog.txt.

How to do it...

Before jumping into the solution, let's first try to understand the problem statement:

Problem statement

Many companies run businesses on their websites. Their website performance decides the sales or profitability. Web servers generally log information about the user, browser, IP address, and so on. We can use this information in order to make the website browsing experience smoother for users, which would help increase profitability.

Solution

Here, we assume that a company hosting its website on an Apache...