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Mongodb, Big Data and Boston

Asked by Scott the Candidate Maker : 10 July 2011 - 02:14 PM

Answered by marsee : Jul 12 2011 10:30 AM
Hi Scott Apparently you're not the only person in Boson looking for a mongoDB group--here's a waiting list in Meetup: http://mongodb.meetu...s/us/ma/boston/ Here's a complete list of all... full answer >
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Introducing K-Means Clustering

By adfm : 11 February 2010 - 02:41 PM
This excerpt from Toby Segaran's Programming Collective Intelligence introduces K-Means Clustering, an algorithm that determines the size of clusters based on the structure of the data. Hierar...
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How to Find Similar Users with Python

By adfm : 08 February 2010 - 06:00 PM
Collaborative filtering techniques enable online retailers to recommend products, services, and media for the majority of commercial websites you visit daily. When you purchase something at Amazon....
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Basic Operations in R

By adfm : 27 January 2010 - 03:39 PM
If you're eager to learn more about R and want a taste of what it's like, here's an introduction to the basic operations in R from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell. Let’s get started using R....
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Introducing the R Console

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 05:26 PM
This excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R console. If you use R, you'll spend most of your time interacting with the console. The R console is the most important tool for usin...
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Introducing the R Graphical User Interface

By adfm : 08 January 2010 - 04:20 PM
The following excerpt from Joseph Adler's R in a Nutshell introduces the R Graphical User Interface. This is helpful if you would like to know what the R GUI looks like on other operating systems. ...
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Big Data -- A link roundup

By adfm : 08 December 2009 - 12:07 AM
Big Data is when your data is so large you seriously have to consider how you're going to organize, store, and manage it in order to gain some benefit from it. Here are a few links to get you star...
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Practical Techniques for Developing with Pig and Hadoop

By tomwhite : 28 October 2009 - 12:46 PM
There are some practical techniques that are worth knowing about when you are developing and running Pig programs. This section covers some of them.ParallelismWhen running in Hadoop mode...
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How to Benchmark a Hadoop Cluster

By tomwhite : 28 October 2009 - 12:24 PM
Is the cluster set up correctly? The best way to answer this question is empirically: run some jobs and confirm that you get the expected results. Benchmarks make good tests, as you also...
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Anatomy of a MapReduce Job Run with Hadoop

By tomwhite : 28 October 2009 - 12:16 PM
You can run a MapReduce job with a single line of code: JobClient.runJob(conf). It’s very short, but it conceals a great deal of processing behind the scenes. This section uncov...
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