The programming for Big Data module will commence on Wednesday 30th January.
The first part of this module will consist of 4 weeks covering the core part of Hadoop and Map-Reduce.
You
will need to have access to a Hadoop environment. There are many
resources available online and many vendors provide sample Virtual
Machines.
There is a basic Hadoop VM available. If you
would like to use this VM then you should download the following file in
advance of the class. I will show you how to setup this virtual
machine during the first class.
Download VM file here. Download this file before coming to the first class.
You
will also need to have VirtualBox installed and your operating system
will need to support virtualisation. Please check this before
Wednesday's class.
It is OK to use an alternative virtual machine or cloud service for this module.
To
use this VM you will need approx 20G of download space and any
additional space that you may require. I will go through this on
Wednesday
Check out my module webpage, where you will find the links to the VM and to other module resources
Particularly check out the following before Wednesday's class
- Module Overview
- Module Pre-requisites
- What to do before first class
