Download or read book Programming Pig written by Alan Gates and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the programming language that helps programmers describe and run large data projects on Hadoop. With Pig, they can analyze data without having to create a full-fledged application--making it easy for them to experiment with new data sets.