{"id":645,"date":"2010-07-08T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-07-08T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:29:55","slug":"free-mapreduce-and-hadoop-lectures-from-uc-berkeley-good-launching-point-for-exploring-hadoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Free MapReduce and Hadoop lectures from UC Berkeley. Good launching point for exploring Hadoop."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been watching two lectures from UC Berkeley\u2019s CS61A course, on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mapreduce\" target=\"_blank\">MapReduce<\/a> in general and (in the second lecture) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hadoop\" target=\"_blank\">Hadoop<\/a> specifically. If you\u2019re looking for a good, deep kick-starter on both the concepts and the implementation, I\u2019d recommend them. They\u2019re a little dry (hey, they are university CS lectures), and you\u2019ll need to focus on them as they move relatively quickly, but they reward the concentration with, I think, a really good launching point for playing with Hadoop. The lectures are up on YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mVXpvsdeuKU\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NjAKl5B0BKs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but note there is a download link so you can watch them offline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been watching two lectures from UC Berkeley\u2019s CS61A course, on MapReduce in general and (in the second lecture) Hadoop specifically. If you\u2019re looking for a good, deep kick-starter on both the concepts and the implementation, I\u2019d recommend them. They\u2019re a little dry (hey, they are university CS lectures), and you\u2019ll need to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mapreduce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}