Michael Noll has some really good introductory articles to Big Data, and I highly recommend his posts for anyone starting in this field. His post on writing Py

Michael Noll has some really good introductory articles to Big Data, and I highly recommend his posts for anyone starting in this field. His post on writing Python streaming programs in Hadoop - http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/writing-an-hadoop-mapreduce-program-in-python/ http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/writing-an-hadoop-mapr... - got me started in this area two years ago, and that's what I'm still doing these days! :)