A Brief Overview of Hadoop

Wrestling with big data is something that happens both on the front end, where business analysts and decisions makers need to make sense of it all, as well as on the back end, where software engineers and data scientists have to manage massive amounts of information.

No matter what side of the table you're on, you need to understand the mechanics of big data so that you can set expectations and drive discussion across teams.

One of the buzzwords tossed around in any discussion around big data these days is hadoop. I used to think it was just some database software, but this video from lynda.com expert Barton Poulson helped me to better understand exactly what hadoop is, and how it is so important for all of us involved in data analysis in any capacity.

 You can check out the entire course, Techniques and Concepts of Big Data, at lynda.com.