title: Mapreduce for dummies
body: <p>Ok, I am attempting to learn Hadoop and mapreduce. I really want to start with mapreduce and what I find are many, many simplified examples of mappers and reducers, etc. However, I seen to be missing something. </p>
  
  <p>While an example showing how many occurrences of a word are in a document is simple to understand it does not really help me solve any "real world" problems. Does anybody know of a good tutorial of implementing mapreduce in a psuedo-realistic situation. Say, for instance, I want to use hadoop and mapreduce on top of a data store similar to Adventureworks. Now I want to get orders for a given product in the month of may. How would that look from a hadoop/mapreduce perspective? (I realize this may not be the type of problem mapreduce is intended to solve but, it just came to mind quickly.)</p>
  
  <p>Any direction would help.</p>