Tutorials

• Of Algebirds, Monoids, Monads, and Other Bestiary for Large-Scale Data Analytics, by Michael Noll
• Algebird: a Tweet by Tweet Guide by Pardis Noorzad
• Top K Users, Using Algebird Bloomfilter in Spark, by Venu Kanaparthi

Presentations

• Count-Min Sketch in Real Data Applications, by Laura Bledaite
• Algebird, by Ian O’Connell
• Add ALL the things: Abstract Algebra meets Analytics, by Avi Bryant
• scala.collection.approximate, by Avi Bryant
• Life after Monoids, by Tom Switzer
• Twitter Algebird Approximations by Martin Odersky

Slides

• Algebird: Abstract Algebra for big data analytics at Devoxx 2014, by Samir Bessalah
• Data-cubing made simple with Spark, Algebird and HBase by Vidmantas Zemleris
• Algebra for Scalable Analytics, by Oscar Boykin
• Counting with Algebird and Spark, by esumitra
• Aggregators: modeling data queries functionally, by Oscar Boykin

Papers

• Monoidify! Monoids as a Design Principle for Efficient MapReduce Algorithms by Jimmy Lin

Books

• Notes on Abstract Algebra by University of Southern Mississipi professor John Perry
• Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason - While this book does not specifically cover Algebird, it’s a great introduction to functional programming in Scala in general and covers some of the abstractions that can be found in Algebird.