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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

Performing Twitter Sentiment Analytics using R


In an earlier chapter, we saw how to perform Twitter sentiment analytics using Hive and Hadoop. In this recipe, we are going to take a look at how to do this using R.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have R installed on your machine. You should also have a Twitter account and an application that has an API key, API secret, Access Token, and an Access Secret with you so that you can receive tweets in real time.

How to do it...

To get started, first of all, we need to install certain R packages, which will be required in this recipe. The following are the commands:

>install.packages("twitteR")
>install.packages("plyr")
>install.packages("stringr")
>install.packages(c("devtools", "rjson", "bit64", "httr"))

Once the installation is complete, load the following packages:

>library(devtools)
>library(twitteR)

Next, we need to provide the keys provided that are by Twitter on its application page, as follows:

>api_key &lt...