Big Data Cookbook

I found this recently and it looks pretty nice. Check out the screenshots.

Code on GH.

—Jason

A great video lecture on Social Network Analysis (SNA) from a course on “Computational Journalism” from the University of Hong Kong.

—Jason

Big Data Graph Processing

Recently, I have noticed an uptick in blog posts and articles about big data graph processing.

Here are some useful links I have come across:

Signal/Collect is a framework for parallel graph processing
GraphChi-Java
PageRank in Pig with examples in GH
Mining GitHub Followers in Tinkerpop

Intro to: Triplestores →

Great intro and short article on triplestores. It has tons of links to other resources. In particular, I thought these were pretty interesting:

—Jason

Demining the "Join Bomb" with graph queries in Neo4j →

Another good Neo4j article. This one shows some relatively complex graph based queries on an imaginary telecommunications data set using Cypher.

—Jason

“MapQuest for Trains” app using Neo4j →

This is a great article on using Neo4j for creating a small maps application for trains (“MapQuest for Trains”). There is not much code in the article, but the author posted his code in github.

—Jason

Analyzing Big Data With Twitter course from UC Berkeley →

I’m not sure how I haven’t seen this before, but it looks pretty amazing. It provides all the lecture slides and videos as well as student projects.

Check out the video playlist on Youtube