README.md

Hadoop Mini Project

Post-Sale Automobile Report

In this project, we will utilize data from an automobile tracking platform that tracks the history of important incidents after the initial sale of a new vehicle. Such incidents include subsequent private sales, repairs, and accident reports. The platform provides a good reference for second-hand buyers to understand the vehicles they are interested in.

The report is stored as CSV files in HDFS with following schema:

Learning Objectives

• Utilitzing MapReduce jobs in Python.
• Leveraging a MapReduce processing model to process large scale data and break down a complex problem into smaller tasks.
• Getting familiar with VirtualBox environment.

Setting up Hadoop using Hortonworks Hadoop Sandbox

• Please follow the Instruction video to set up Hadoop with Hortonworks Hadoop Sandbox (Cloudera).

  1. Install Virtual Box
  2. Install Cloudera HDP

• Extra material how to move files from Linux env to HDFS and backward in Cloudera Hadoop Virtual Machine.

Step 1:

From your Local Terminal run upload_files.sh to upload to the root directory in the VirtualBox:

• You have to input the password of root account in order to upload the files.

Step 2:

From the Sandbox's Web Shell Client - http://localhost:4200, logging into as root account and let's put the data.csv into hadoop file system:

$ hadoop fs -mkdir test_dir
$ hadoop fs -put data.csv /user/root/test_dir  

Double check the uploaded file in the Ambari Files View:

• Note: the owner of the folder and file must be root !

Step 3:

From the Sandbox's Web Shell Client, run file auto.sh:

$ bash auto.sh

Step 4:

After all the MapReduce jobs were successfully executed, let's check the output:

• From all_accidents folder:

• From make_year_count folder:

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NOTE:

• In the default Python enviroment is version 2 in VirtualBox so when you should either update the python env to 3 (or above) or tailor your code to fit the python 2.

For example, Python 2 doesn't support F-string like Python 3 which can cause error when you run the MapReduce python script. Therefore, you have to use %s acts a placeholder for a string while %d acts as a placeholder for a number. More detail

• The easiest way to check if your Python script is compatiable with python 2 is to run python mapper1.py or other python script in Sandbox's Web Shell Client - http://localhost:4200. If there is no error occurs, it means your code is good for python 2.