This document provides an overview of big data analysis for page ranking using MapReduce. It discusses key concepts like the 4 V's of big data, Hadoop, MapReduce, and applications such as homeland security, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and more. MapReduce is a framework that processes large datasets in a distributed manner using two phases - Map and Reduce. The Map phase processes key-value pairs to generate intermediate outputs, while the Reduce phase merges values associated with the same key.