Python in Big Data

What Python has to offer to the world of Big Data, specific use-cases, and interaction between a python and an elephant (Hadoop).

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Travis Oliphant, CEO of Continuum Analytics, kicks off PyData with a talk on Python in Big Data. Topics addressed include

• the interaction between Python and Hadoop (in the picture above from The Little Prince the python swallows the Hadoop elephant),
• specific use-cases
• why Hadoop is considered the de-facto standard.
• an overview of NumPy and SciPy.

More talks from the 2012 PyData Workshop are at mrkn.co/3tkq2.