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Pig
Bookmarks
Pig Not-So-Foreign Language: Paper Notes
Bugra Akyildiz's notes on the 'Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing' paper by Yahoo! Research — explaining how Pig Latin compiles high-level data flow operations to MapReduce jobs. Captures why Pig was a meaningful step up from raw MapReduce for ETL work.
Hadoop for Data Science
Mortar Data's introduction to Hadoop for data scientists — when to use it, what the MapReduce programming model actually means, and how Pig Latin abstracts away the low-level boilerplate.