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.

Building FreeEed in online IDE

Just can't resist telling the world how I am building eDiscovery project, FreeEed, in an online compiler (IDE). See the picture. Now more people can work on it together, from all parts of the world.

And, by the way, doing this and posting it from a new Chromebook.

How to configure metadata collection with FreeEed

Sometimes you may be lacking some of the metadata fields, or you may want them called a different name, or you may want a different alias. Here is how to do it.

Say, for example, that you cannot find the "Creation Date" for regular documents (this has been added to the default, but we here we use it only as an example).

Live reporting from the HTC IC&S show

Left to right: Alexander Burnett, Pat Kerr and Serge Findling.