Tutorials Overview

The following tutorials provide a solid background on most of Essentia’s capabilities. They do not require significant computational resources, and therefore the AWS free tier of instances is sufficient to get started.

Essentia Commands

The first few tutorials aim to introduce the user to the Essentia commands that control connecting to, grouping, and streaming your data.

The manual for the Essentia commands is located here: Essentia Commands.

Examples of the syntax and options for the Essentia commands are located here: Example Essentia Syntax.

Users are encouraged to go through the tutorials in order.

• Connect to your Data Storage
  • Public Data
• Tutorial Data
  • Description of Data
• Data Classification
  • Getting Started
  • Categorization of Data
  • Future sessions
• Data Processing: Part 1
  • Getting Started

Data Processing Commands

The next few tutorials introduce users to the incredibly powerful toolset of Data Processing commands that enable easy maniputlation, combination, and analysis of many types of data.

The manual for the Data Processing (AQ) commands is located here: Data Processing Tools.

Examples of the syntax and options for the Data Processing (AQ) commands are located here: Example aq_pp Commands and here: Example aq_udb Commands.

Users are encouraged to go through the tutorials in order.

• Data Processing: Part 2
  • Essentia Data Processing and the aq_pp command
  • Data Processing at Scale
  • Final Notes
• In-memory Database
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
  • Importing data
  • Querying the database
  • Map/Reduce, Essentia Style
• How To Scale Up
• SQL Query: Categories
• SQL Query: UDB Databases
• File Analyzer
  • Usage
  • Other Notes
• Log Format Conversion
  • Parsing Apache Logs

Example Scripts and Syntax

This next document details various scripts and example syntax for the Essentia and Data Processing commands.

• Essentia Examples
  • Local Datastore
  • Syntax and Options
  • Github Repositories