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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)

Summary

There is a lot of structured data in the modern world and it is saved in the form of information, usually text files, and displayed in titled columns and rows. In this chapter, we learned about structured data and different types of modeling that can be performed on them. In addition to that, we got familiar with some of the important Python libraries, including Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and IPython. We used these libraries to generate models for house attributes, and used these models to predict the price of a new house based on certain parameters.

In the next chapter, we will be looking at unstructured data and its sources, and using some of the most popular open source tools to generate models from them.