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MapReduce Tutorial : Counters
Sometimes it is useful to count events differently than outputting them (key, value) pairs. For that reason Hadoop offers simple counter framework.
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Exercise
Run a MR job on /home/straka/wiki/cs-text, which uses counters to count the number of articles according to their first letter (ignoring the case and possible diacritics).