Houston Hadoop Meetup - How do I get the data in?

Steve Byrnes gave an excellent presentation on "Hadoop for DevOps, including OpenTSDB, Flume, and Scribe."

He also uploaded the slides and the materials using some fancy tools. In his own words,

"Hi, I've finally gotten the presentation pushed out to Github. See http://erewhon.github.io/hadoop-devops-prezi/ for the HTML w/presentation notes. The source for the presentation and the examples are at https://github.com/erewhon/hadoop-devops-prezi  (Some of those examples might have a hard coded user or host in them, so probably shouldn't be run as is.)

Thanks, Steve!

March 2013

Houston Hadoop Meetup - 'Hadoop for Execs'

It was a bit of a try-out, for everything: Hadoop illuminated LLC as a host, new office on One Riverway for meetups and training, and 'Hadoop for Execs' presentation.

And it all went great: the audience, the accommodations, the materials (mostly composed by Sujee Maniyam), and surely the questions and answers.

It is clear: Houston is thirsting for Hadoop knowledge, and we are going to help: we will host monthly 'Hadoop for Execs' seminars. We only need to decide on the format: should we make it a one-hour whirlwind tour, two-hours overview, or a half-day actual training. Tough question, but nice to have.

Cooperating with Dell

I like flying for lunch to Austin, and here I had just such an opportunity, to meet with the great people at Dell. We have found whole five ways in which we can cooperate! Awesome, nice.

Announcing open access Hadoop book, "Hadoop illuminated"

Friends, we would like to tell you about an open source book on Hadoop, called "Hadoop illuminated." You can find it here.

We want to make learning about Hadoop and its ecosystem fun and engaging. The book is accompanied by its project on GitHub. The book is work in progress, we consider it in alpha stage. We will be updating and adding to it. Your feedback is welcome.

Please enjoy.

Sincerely yours,
Mark Kerzner and Sujee Maniyam

Hadoopilluminated.com

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Largest turnout for Houston Hadoop Meetup

Our turnout for this event was the record twenty-two people. David Smith did a wonderful job outlining R and Revolution Analytics. Here are some pictures from the meeting.

Caroline Collective (SHMsoft working space) where the Houston Hadoop Meetup takes place is a combination of startup and artistic communities, so in the photo you see both.

Houston Technology Center Champs

This past Friday I was presenting at the HTC Champs meeting. Really, I wanted to present this vision, but they convinced me that it was too far out into the future, so I had to limit to the practical today.

However, I was extremely impressed with what I heard there. The scope and the shear size of the Houston's startup atmosphere was hitherto unbeknownst to me.

Look at BioHoston. Jacqueline Northcut told about the effort to bring multiple development biotech companies to Houston, the services of 1,500 advisers provided to them, and in the case of cancer research-related companies, these services are provided for free! The SURGE accelerator (bringing to Houston tech startups that deal with energy, and paying them for it!), the TiE Houston - these were all awesome. So was the feedback. Thank you all, guys!