Hadoop
The Definitive Guide
by Tom White · first published 2009
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xxv, 727 pages : 24 cm
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It's amazing how many cold calls you get if you mention Hadoop in your LinkedIn profile or resume. It's also a bit myopic: the strength of Hadoop and MapReduce in general is a simple, scale agnostic programming model. I can give somebody Tom White's book and they'll…
on “How To Get A (Programmer) Job "In This Economy"” ↗…http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang//papers/nips06-mapredu... Map Reduce algos book by Jimmy Lin: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html Pattern Recognition by Bishop (or Theodoridis) Linear algebra by G.Strang Graph Theory by Gross Hadoop the definitive guide by Tom White Natural Language Processing by Manning Information Retrieval by Manning for additional references here is a great compilation: http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/3/12/learning-about-m...
on “Numerical recipes in Hadoop” ↗My neighbor at work looks through this book all the time- http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/1...
on “Ask HN: How do you learn Hadoop and NoSQL Databases?” ↗Similarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book. An example of this is when you search for Hadoop. You'll find all 4 editions of Tom White's book show up in the top 10 listing.
on “The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow” ↗