I’ll be speaking at this year’s Strata and Hadoop World conference. I’ll be talking about my Million Monkeys project, randomness, and using Hadoop in your business. It’s a great way to learn more about Hadoop. See you...
My original review of Hadoop The Definitive Guide (TDG) was for the 2nd edition. Recently, the 3rd edition was released. I reread the book in its entirety. The new edition covers the latest changes to the 1.x (0.20) and the 2.x (0.23). The book’s examples now...
Things have been pretty quiet around here. A little too quiet. Like all things in life, I got really busy. I changed jobs and I’m a Curriculum Developer and Instructor at Cloudera. I will be teaching people more about Hadoop and its ecosystem. Look for more...
Update: Be sure to check out my screencast covering this project. Note: This is a very long, technical and detailed discussion of Amazon Web Services. You can watch the YouTube video below for a less technical explanation or skip to the conclusion to get the results....
At last weekend’s Hack4Reno, I created a new visualization of the Million Monkeys’ data. It allows you to choose your favorite work of Shakespeare and find out how a particular character was found. You simply place or hover the mouse over a character and...
