Use StackExchange open data to rank USA states by user reputation inside StackExchange
- Download top 20 state by population from link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population using relevant R libraries
- run query http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/249571 using state abbrevation as a parameter
- move query results to the HDFS
- use appropriate MapReduce design pattern to sort and save the results
- test classes
- visualize final results