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by flanger 4814 days ago
Ryan, co-founder of Zipfian Academy here. Completely agree -- data scientists can spend up to 90% of their time cleaning and getting their data in the proper format for analysis. This, plus the emergence of Hive and Pig as dominant higher-level abstractions on top of Hadoop, have made robust SQL skills more important than ever. We have an upcoming blog post specially focusing on learning SQL and the differences between SQL/HiveQL.