Inductive Bias

Slides online

December 9, 2011
NLP, Pig, Hadoop, Get Together, triposo

Slides online # Slides of this week’s Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin are online at: Douwe Osinga: Overview of the Data Processing Pipeline at Triposo Max Jacob: Pig for Natural Language Processing Overall a great event, well organised - looking forward to seeing you at the next Get Together. If you want to get in touch with our participants, learn about new events or simply chat between meetups join our Apache Hadoop Get Together Linked. ...

Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin December 2011

December 8, 2011
GetTogether, Hadoop, Get Together, triposo

Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin December 2011 # First of all a huge Thank You to David Obermann for organising today’s Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin: After a successful Berlin Buzzwords and a rather long pause following that finally a Christmas meetup took place today at Smarthouse, kindly sponsored by Axel Springer and organised by David Obermann from idealo. About 40 guests from Neofonie, Nokia, Amen, StudiVZ, Gameduell, TU Berlin, nurago, Soundcloud, nugg. ...

December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin

November 24, 2011
Berlin, Hadoop, Get Together

December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # First of all please note that meetup organisation is being transitioned over to our xing meetup group. So in order to be notified of future meetings, make sure to join that group. Please make also sure to register for the December event as in contrast to past meetups this time space will be limited, so make sure to grab a ticket. If you cannot make it, please let the organiser know so he can issue additional tickets. ...

Apache Con Wrap Up

November 16, 2011
Slides, ApacheCon, Apache Con, audio

Apache Con Wrap Up # First things first - slides, audio and abstracts of Apache Con are all online now on their Lanyrd page. So if you missed the conference or could not attend a session due to conflicting with another interesting session - that’s your chance to catch up. For those of you who are speaking German, there’s also a summary of Apache Con available on heise Open. (If you don’t speak German, I have been told that the Google Translate version of the site captures the gist of the article reasonably well. ...

Cloudera in Berlin

November 14, 2011
hbase, Hadoop, Get Together

Cloudera in Berlin # Cloudera is hosting another round of trainings in Berlin in November this year. In addition to the trainings on Apache Hadoop this time around there will also be trainings on Apache HBase. Register online via: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2315126606 http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2349094204

Being in San Francisco

November 6, 2011
SFO, Freetime, vacation

Being in San Francisco # I spent the last two weeks together with Thilo in San Francisco - and neighboring areas. I had asked beforehand for recommendations on where to go and what to do, had purchased a “Rough Guide to California” as well as a “Lonely Planet guide for San Francisco”. In addition I shared my arrival and departure times with a few people I know here. As to be expected our schedule quickly grew until it exploded, so we ended up doing greedy optimisation stuffing things in and putting them out again while we went along. ...

Apache Hadoop Get Together - Hand over

November 2, 2011
Scaling, NOSQL, Apache Hadoop Get Together, Hadoop, Lucene, Berlin, Get Together

Apache Hadoop Get Together - Hand over # Apache Hadoop receives lots of attention from large US corporations who are using the project to scale their data processing pipelines: “Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive extensively to process large data sets. […]” (Ashish Thusoo, Engineering Manager at Facebook), “Hadoop is a key ingredient in allowing LinkedIn to build many of our most computationally difficult features […]” (Jay Kreps, Principal Engineer, LinkedIn), “Hadoop enables [Twitter] to store, process, and derive insights from our data in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. ...