Apache Pig

Pig is a platform for creating query execution routines on large, distributed data sets. The scripting language used is called Pig Latin (No, I didn’t make it up, believe me). Pig is supposedly easy to understand and learn. But my question is how many of these can one learn?

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55 percent of North American businesses have adopted big data analytics.
29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
Data warehouse optimization is considered the most important big data analytics use case, and is considered critical or very important by 70 percent of businesses.
40 percent of businesses say they need to manage unstructured data on a frequent basis.
53 percent of CEOs consider themselves the primary leader of their company’s analytics agenda.
73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
60 percent of businesses believe it is harder to source talent for data and analytics positions than for any other roles
30 percent of businesses consider the Spark software framework critical to their big data analytics strategies.
The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.

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