Rice tech forum report, presenting SHMsoft, FreeEed and Hadoop Illuminated

Reporting live!

Introduction by the Rice business school president.







Stafford high school students in the back. One needs to change to the audience.

The rests of the audience: investors, entrepreneurs and company representatives.

VC speed dating, Rice Alliance conference, reporting live :)

The famous entry, leading from the Shepherd School of Music to the McNair building where speed dating with venture capitalists is taking place.

All ready, in anticipation.

And now, dating is in progress :)

But what is better than this fountain?

Hadoop in healthcare, illuminated

What are the Big Data / Hadoop use cases in healthcare? To name just a few

• Bringing all patient data from different sylos together into one cloud
• Genome processing and DNA sequencing
• Healthcare quality and cost: integrate patient data, clinical data and financial records - to find patterns leading to better, more proactive healthcare
• Clinical product recommendation using using Big Data graphs.

Here is our artist's view of it.

The battle for Hadoop's attention, illuminated

Everybody vies for Hadoop attention, and everyone wants to invite Hadoop to take a rest on its cloud. You would think that Google, being the inventor of it, would have the final say!? - But that is not so, Hadoop is a community project, and a democracy (rule of the people), meritocracy (rule of the committers), or croudsourcing (rule of I-don't-know-who) decides it. Here is our artist's view of this.

Houston Hadoop Meetup - Accumulo by Ravi Mutyala

Here is the Meetup link.

Ravi, as it turned out, is a contributor to Accumulo. He is delivering his lecture to eager Houston Hadoopers.

I am a reviewer on "Practical Data Analysis"

I am a reviewer on a new book, "Practical Data Analysis" published by Packt.

Houston Hadoop Meetup - October - Boyd Meier of PROS: Night Owl, a system for collecting and search logs

Below is the background for Boyd's presentation, and here are the slides.