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This is the most exciting thing about bigtop - it is a great sandbox for learning how hadoop really works.  For newcomers, here are 3 places where you can "dive into" bigtop to start learning about how the hadoop ecosystem really works.

1) You can start by playing with the bigpetstore app on your local machine, which can run a whole hadoop workflow for you, creating data that you can visualize in the bigpetstore web app  app.

2)   Once you "get it", you can move on to spinning up your own hadoop cluster using the vagrant recipes, or else, by directly grabbing a bigtop image from the nightly builds on the jenkins server. 

3) Finally, as you get more advanced, you can see how bigtop pulls down source from various hadoop projects, packages it into rpms, installs those rpms, and coordinates their configuration/startup with puppet, by looking in bigtop-deploy/.