‘Hadoop Illuminated’ Book by Mark Kerzner and Sujee Maniyam.
From the webpage:
Gentle Introduction of Hadoop and Big Data
Get the book…
We are writing a book on Hadoop with following goals and principles.
- make Hadoop accessible to a wider audience — not just the highly technical crowd.
- The book is always evolving (‘living’ book) — because Hadoop evolves fast
- We have a few unique chapters that you won’t find in other Hadoop books, for example
- Hadoop use cases
- Hadoop distributions rundown
- BI Tools feature matrix
- The book is freely available
- It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
(Same as MIT Open Courseware)
- Adopting the book content based on user feedback and requests. Please send yours to
authors@hadoopilluminated.com
More of a great outline for a Hadoop book than a great Hadoop book at present.
However, it is also the perfect opportunity for you to try your hand at clear, readable introductory prose on Hadoop. (That isn’t as easy as it sounds.)
As a special treat, there is a Hadoop Coloring Book for Kids. (Send more art for the coloring book as well.)
I especially appreciate the coloring book because I don’t have any coloring books. Did I mention I have a small child coming to visit during the holidays? 😉
PS: Has anyone produced a sort algorithm coloring book?