Books to start learning big data

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Gunter Amorim picture Gunter Amorim · Nov 8, 2012 · Viewed 35.8k times · Source

I would like to start learning about the big data technologies. I want to work in this area in the future. Does anyone know good books to start learning about it? Hadoop, HBase.

Beginner - intermediate - advanced -

Thanks in advance

Answer

megas picture megas · Nov 8, 2012

I think a good start for beginner will be the Big Data course from Coursera

For example I've learnt the basics of MapReduce techonlology.

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