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Alberto Paro
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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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Indexing data with Apache Pig

Apache Pig (https://pig.apache.org/) is a tool that's frequently used to store and manipulate data in data stores. It can be very handy if you need to import some Comma-Separated Values (CSV) in Elasticsearch very quickly.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

You need a working Pig installation. Depending on your operating system, you should follow the instructions at http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.17.0/start.html.

If you are using macOS X with Homebrew, you can install it with brew install pig; in Linux/Windows, you can install it with the following commands:

wget -c https://downloads.apache.org/pig/pig-0.17.0/pig-0.17.0.tar.gz
tar xfvz pig-0.17.0.tar.gz

How to do it...

We want to read a CSV file and write the data in Elasticsearch. We will perform the following steps to do so:

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Alberto Paro

Alberto Paro is an engineer, manager, and software developer. He currently works as technology architecture delivery associate director of the Accenture Cloud First data and AI team in Italy. He loves to study emerging solutions and applications, mainly related to cloud and big data processing, NoSQL, Natural language processing (NLP), software development, and machine learning. In 2000, he graduated in computer science engineering from Politecnico di Milano. Then, he worked with many companies, mainly using Scala/Java and Python on knowledge management solutions and advanced data mining products, using state-of-the-art big data software. A lot of his time is spent teaching how to effectively use big data solutions, NoSQL data stores, and related technologies.
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