The document outlines a hands-on workshop on running Hadoop on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). It provides instructions on setting up an AWS account and necessary services like S3 and EC2. It then guides attendees on writing a word count MapReduce program, packaging it into a JAR file, and running it on EMR. The document shares examples and code for performing common analytics tasks like aggregation, group-by operations, and frequency distributions using MapReduce on Hadoop.