Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

If you’re interested in working on large scale problems like Apache Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, Mahout, Cassandra, etc. and you live in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill or greater NC area, then you might be interested in the upcoming Scale-A-Thon event that several of us from the Triangle Hadoop User’s Group are putting on June 18th at Bronto [...]

Yonik pointed me at:   mahout Job Trends Mahout jobs While the scale is still pretty small (compare w/ iPhone at 0.1 on the vertical axis), at least it’s going upwards!  Of course, the keyword match for the search also assumes that we are talking Apache Mahout here and that no one is advertising for [...]

The slides from my DC Hadoop meetup presentation are on SlideShare at: Intro to Mahout — DC Hadoop. I really enjoyed the meetup.  Lots of good questions and insights into machine learning.  For those at the meeting who were asking about references, check out Mahout’s references page, especially the Background Material section.