Cloudera (my employer) is hiring. And this time they’re using social recruiting to find the best. This job post is using OnGig to find someone. It’s a very interesting approach than the usual CraigsList ad. OnGig doesn’t have the usual ‘stealth...
Head on over to the Cloudera blog to see my post about using MapReduce and Graph Theory to solve a Boggle roll. This will give you all of the explanation and code you need to try things...
Mary Alice Berg was my grandma and she died peacefully on January 7, 2013 at the ripe old age of 76. She had a long bout with renal cancer that spread to other organs. The daughter of an Irish orphan mother and a German immigrant father, she was born, lived and died...
I’ll be speaking at the Big Data Congress in St. John, New Brunswick Canada. The session’s theme is the software that powers Big Data. I’ll be telling the Million Monkeys stories and answering questions. See you...
Advanced NFL Stats just released the play by play of the 2002 season on. I some quick analysis of the data using Hive and MapReduce and decided to look at incomplete passes. The code is here on my GitHub account. Update: Added in 2010...
