Pentaho for Big Data Analytics

Language: English
Author: Manoj R Patil, Feris Thia
Paperback: 118 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date: November 2013
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 1783282150





Overview

• A guide to using Pentaho Business Analytics for big data analysis
• Learn Pentaho’s visualization and reporting tools with practical examples and tips
• Precise insights into churning big data into meaningful knowledge with Pentaho

Approach

The book is a practical guide, full of step-by-step examples that are easy to follow and implement.

What you will learn from this book

• Get to grips with the Pentaho suite
• Explore the basics of Big Data and its business context
• Set up a Pentaho business analytics server
• Consume Big Data on HDFS platform using Pentaho Data Integration
• Create visualization with Pentaho's tools
• Distinguish signal from noise with Pentaho's Data Analytics capabilities
• Design and set up your own Pentaho dashboard
• Move from data to analytics in just a few steps with Community Dashboard Framework (CDF)

Table of Contents (full version)
Preface

• Chapter 1: The Rise of Pentaho Analytics along with Big Data
• Chapter 2: Setting Up the Ground
• Chapter 3: Churning Big Data with Pentaho
• Chapter 4: Pentaho Business Analytics Tools
• Chapter 5: Visualization of Big Data
• Appendix A: Big Data Sets
• Appendix B: Hadoop Setup
• Index