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Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
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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 IMDb Data Points with Python

In the earlier chapters, we studied different types of big data, their sources, and how to manage them in order to extract hidden insights from them. Now, it's time to apply this knowledge to some real databases. This chapter consumes IMDb data points as big data and uses it in Python to model according to tips and tricks learned in this book. This book tries to consume the data in raw format, transform it into the correct format, model it using Python, and interpret the model thus produced. We will be covering the following topics:

  • Discovering the nature of IMDb data
  • Modeling weather data with Python
  • Interpreting the data model discovered