This is Hadoop MapReduce code written using the Crunch library, which is written on top of the Hadoop API with an intent to simplify it. On top of that, the gis

This is Hadoop MapReduce code written using the Crunch library, which is written on top of the Hadoop API with an intent to simplify it. On top of that, the gist author wrote this bit of code in Scala (thus, Scrunch), trying to emphasize how much easier it is to write functional code in Scala as opposed to Java.