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Welcome!
Welcome to my new blog! I’ve started this to document my research as I delve more into cloud computing. I’m current on a major project with the government, gaining many insights to cloud infrastructure...
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Pairs and Stripes
When reading Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, I became quite confused by their description of the “pairs” and “stripes”. I understand it now, and would like to...
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The “Hello World” of Hadoop
In the world of MapReduce, the most common introduction program is to perform a WordCount. This is the processes of going through a corpus of data and counting the instances of the words found. I’d...
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Simple Hadoop Overview
As per the Hadoop website: Hadoop is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up...
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MapReduce Overview
MapReduce is a processing paradigm for distributed processing of massive amounts of data in a cloud environment. It is not limited to Hadoop, it is a theory, or design methodology. That said, my...
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County Housing Search
I recently wrote a job to identify the counties with the most houses for sale (according to the 2010 Census). To do so, I ingested the data from the Census Bureau, and wrote a MapReduce job. My goal...
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HBase Installation
This morning I installed HBase onto my vm. I’ve dabbled in it before, but have my sights set on gaining greater experience in web applications and data access supported by HBase. Prerequisites I’m...
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