Course: Massive Data Analysis 2014/Hadoop Exercise

Before you start

• You must have Hadoop installed and working on your local machine. You also need to setup your Amazon AWS account. Refer to the instruction in the course page.
• Download the following package: http://vgc.poly.edu/~fchirigati/mda-class/hadoop-exercise.zip. This package contains the basic WordCount example to help you get started.
• What to submit for these exercises:
  • Code: place your code for exercises 1, 2 and 3 in a public GitHub repository
  • Results: put the results in your S3 bucket (don't forget to make it public)
  • Complete this form to submit the links to your GitHub repository and S3 bucket. Deadline: 11:59 PM on the same day of class (Oct 6, 2014)

Hands-on exercises

• Exercise 0: WordCount
  • Run the basic WordCount example on your local machine and AWS
  • Follow the instructions to create your Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) cluster
  • Instructions to run WordCount on your local machine and EMR cluster will be given in class
  • Note: You don't have to submit code and results for this exercise.

• Exercise 1: Fixed-Length WordCount
  • For this exercise, you will only count words with 5 characters
  • Output: Key is the word, and value is the number of times the word appears in the input.

• Exercise 2: InitialCount
  • Count the number of words based on their initial (first character), i.e., count the number of words per initial
  • The letter case should not be taken into account. For example, Apple and apple will be both counted for initial A
  • Output: Key is the initial (A to Z in UPPERCASE), and value is the number of words having that initial (in either uppercase or lowercase).

• Exercise 3: Top-K WordCount
  • Output the top 100 most frequent 7-character words, in descending order of frequency
  • Output: Key is the word, and value is the number of times the word appears in the input.