Getting Started

Getting started with Pig:

• Pig 0.8 manual - part 1, part 2, and cookbook - from the pig project itself
• Introduction to Pig video by Alan Gates of Yahoo! It's a little older but good. Project Gutenberg has the Bible and Shakespeare texts. I just removed the headers from the UTF-8 versions to use them.
• Introduction to Pig from Data Day Austin by Jacob Perkins from Infochimps. The video is linked here. The airports project is on github. Also a similar blog post by him.
• elephant-bird - A set of twitter created hadoop utilities. It includes a great JSON loader for pig.
• tmbundle - A textmate code highlighting bundle by Kevin Weil at Twitter.

Using Pig over data in Cassandra

• See the source download of the latest version of Cassandra and check out the contrib/pig section.
• See the Hadoop Support page in the Cassandra wiki

Help!

• the pig user mailing list is very active
• the #hadoop-pig irc channel on freenode
• the #cassandra channel for cassandra specific questions