Category Archives: Hadoop

Hadoop 0.1

Posted on June 6, 2013 by GilPress

CNBC: The name [Hadoop] is a homey story going back 10 years—into the realm of a toddler’s experimentation with old-fashioned human language. Cutting’s son, then 2, was just beginning to talk and called his beloved stuffed yellow elephant “Hadoop” (with … Continue reading →

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Explaining Big Data by ExplainingComputers (Video)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by GilPress
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Hadoop MapReduce Example – How good are a city’s farmer’s markets?

Posted on December 24, 2012 by GilPress
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LucidWorks: Bringing Search to Big Data

Posted on October 7, 2012 by GilPress

“Search is the UI for data today,” Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist for LucidWorks, told the audience at the recent IE big data conference in Boston. Anyone on the Internet is familiar with the search box and can find the data they are looking … Continue reading →

Posted in Apache Software Foundation, Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, Hbase, Lucene, LucidWorks, Machine Learning, Mahout, Pig, startups, Text Analytics, Zookeeper | 1 Comment

Big Data Index from Jaspersoft

Posted on February 28, 2012 by GilPress
Posted in Cassandra, Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, MapReduce, mongoDB, Stats | Leave a comment

Big Data Bytes: “Information technology has entered a big-data era”

Posted on January 30, 2012 by GilPress

“From social media to medical revolutions anchored in metadata analyses, wherein astronomical feats of data crunching enable heretofore unimaginable services and businesses, we are on the cusp of unimaginable new markets.”–Mark Mills and Julio Ottino, “The Coming Tech-Led Boom,”  The … Continue reading →

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