Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

I will be speaking tomorrow night at the Triangle Hadoop Users Group on Apache Mahout, hosted by Bronto Software.  This will be an introduction to both Mahout and machine learning, but we will also look at how Mahout uses Hadoop in a particular algorithm.  To learn more, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

For those who live in the Triangle, I’ll be giving an intro talk on Mahout next Monday.  See Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group for more details.  Due note the location is no longer in RTP, but at the Red Hat campus at NCSU. Hope to see you there!

BarCamp wiki / BarCampRDU I’ll be at BarCampRDU tomorrow.  I proposed two sessions, one on Hadoop and Mahout and one on Lucene and Solr.  I don’t think I really want to do both, but I would like to do at least one, so we’ll see what other people are interested in. If you’re around and [...]

Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group I will be speaking November 19, 2007 at the Triangle Java Users Group on Lucene and Solr.   The talk will be an introduction to the features and capabilities of both Lucene and Solr, as well as some basic compare and contrast information.