Roaring Elephant

When we talk about Big Data and Hadoop in particular, we generally have one of the existing distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks or other Big Data companies in mind. But sometimes, a pre-built distro just does not meet the needs. In this episode, we have a guest on the show that explains why they made the choice to forgo the available distributions in favour of building ones own. http://lod-cloud.net/ 00:00 Recent events Dave: Which tool should I use? http://brohrer.github.io/which_tool_should_i_use.html YaRrr! - The Pirate’s guide to R Blog: http://nathanieldphillips.com/thepiratesguidetor/ YaRrr! - Download the book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4udF24Yxab0S1hnZlBBTmgzM3M/view Video tutorials to go with the above: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9tt3I41HFS9gmeZFEuNrnu_7V_NFngfJ Listener Question from Sampath from Baltimore: When moving into a career in Big Data, is it better to pick a technology like Spark and try to build expertise on it versus having a broad