Archive for August, 2011

TriHUG Next Meeting: Sept. 13 @ Bronto Software

Triangle Hadoop Users Group, Next Meeting: Sept. 13 @ Bronto Software. Ted Dunning of Mahout fame will be speaking at the next TriHUG meeting on MapR and it’s relationship with Hadoop, etc.

August 28th, 2011 | Posted in TriHUG | No Comments

SXSW 2012 – Apache Mahout: Bringing Intelligence to Your App

It’s that time of year again: time to vote for SXSW talks.  Last year I did a talk with RC Johnson of BazaarVoice on Solr as NoSQL, this year I thought I would try to fly solo and submitted a talk on Apache Mahout. So, if you are so inclined to do the whole crowdsourcing [...]

August 15th, 2011 | Posted in Hadoop, machine learning, Mahout, Map Reduce | No Comments

Mahout and Other News

After some time away, I’m happy to have had some time recently to work on Mahout again.  Lots of goodness all over the place happening there that I’ll leave to others to explain while I focus in on a few recent things I’ve been doing. First off, I was doing a fair amount of work [...]

August 5th, 2011 | Posted in Hadoop, Lucene, Mahout, Solr | No Comments