Triangle Hadoop Users Group: Archive

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Slides from Feb 16. talk by Adam Gugliciello of...

Thanks to Adam Gugliciello of Datameer for the talk at TriHUG last week! Here are the slides: Financial services trihug View more presentations from trihug.

Feb 23rd

Next Meeting: Feb. 16 @ Bronto Software

Title: Financial Data Analytics with Hadoop Sponsored By: RSVP here Abstract: Hadoop based applications are becoming critical in the financial services arena for the analysis and correlation of large volumes of structured and unstructured data. In addition, the Dodd-Frank Act signifies the largest US financial regulatory change in several decades and requires much greater transparency on...

Feb 1st

Slides from Intro to HBase presentation January...

Thanks to Chris Shain from Tresata for coming to Durham last night to talk about HBase. TriHUG January 2012 Talk by Chris Shain

Jan 18th

Next Meeting: January 17, 2012 @ Bronto Software

Title: Intro to Apache HBase by Chris Shain of Tresata Location: Bronto Software in Durham, NC RSVP Abstract: Chris will provide an introduction to Apache HBase, aiming to discuss: What is HBase? (High level overview) Details of the HBase architecture How do clients interact with HBase? Some general HBase patterns and anti-patterns What are the use cases for HBase vs. Relational DB? ...

Jan 8th

Slides from Alan Gates Presentation on Nov. 15,...

Thanks to Alan Gates of Hortonworks for the two excellent presentations on Apache Pig and Apache HCatalog. Links to the slides for the two talks are included below and are also available on Slideshare. TriHUG November Pig Talk by Alan Gates View more presentations from trihug. TriHUG November HCatalog Talk by Alan Gates View more presentations from trihug.

Nov 18th

Slides from Oct. 11 TriHUG meeting featuring Josh...

OSCON Data 2011 - Lumberyard View more presentations from Josh Patterson

Oct 12th

Next Meeting: November 15, 2011 @ Bronto Software

Our next meeting will be November 15 at Bronto Software. The speaker will be Alan Gates, the author of Programming Pig and a member of the Hortonworks team. RSVP here. ————- Title: New Features in Pig 0.9 and Introducing HCatalog Abstract: Pig 0.9 added several features to make Pig a more powerful data processing platform, including macros, include statements, and...

Oct 12th

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TriHUG Next Meeting featuring Josh Patterson of...

The next Triangle Hadoop User Group meeting will be October 11th at Bronto Software and will be featuring Josh Patterson of Cloudera. RSVP here. Title: Lumberyard: Time series Indexing at Scale Abstract: As time series data explodes in volume in the genomic, sensor, and financial realms [1] companies are looking for more effective ways to store and query this data. To handle this explosion...

Sep 14th

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Slides from Ted Dunning's Sept. 2011 talk

Thanks to everyone for attending last night’s talk! Ted’s slides are available for download below. MapR, Implications for Integration View more presentations from trihug

Sep 14th

Starfish Talk Slides from April 2011

Under the better late than never category, here are the slides from the April 2011 TriHUG meeting on Starfish. Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics View more presentations from gsingers.

Sep 9th

Next Meeting: Sept. 13 @ Bronto Software

We trust everyone has had a good summer and is equally excited to get back into learning more about Apache Hadoop and scaling. Our next meeting will be Sept. 13 at Bronto Software. Food and drinks start at 6:30 and the talks start at 7. We are pleased to announce that our speaker will be Ted Dunning from MapR Technologies. See below for more details. Please RSVP here. Title: MapR,...

Aug 28th

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RTP Scaling Hackathon (Planning Stages)

Some TriHUG members are in the early stage of putting together an all day hackathon on all things scaling (Hadoop, Cassandra, Hive, Pig, Mahout, etc.) and wanted to get some info out to the community as well as a call for volunteers and sponsors. The basic gist of the day is that we get together and spend the day hacking and learning about writing scalable, fault tolerant systems. All...

May 11th

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Next TriHUG: Monday April 4th

Out next meeting will be Monday, April 4th at Bronto. Food and drinks at 6:30pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm. *** Note: this is a Monday, not our usual Tuesday *** Title: Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics Presenter: Shivnath Babu, Duke University Shivnath Babu, assistant professor of Computer Science at Duke University, will help demystify Hadoop performance tuning. Practical...

Mar 21st

February 2011 Meeting - Apache Mahout: Driving the...

Out next meeting will be Tuesday February 1st at Bronto. Food and drinks at 6:30pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm. Apache Mahout: Driving the Yellow Elephant Apache Mahout co-founder and committer, Grant Ingersoll will give an introduction to Apache Mahout and machine learning. We will also spend some time looking at how Mahout leverages Apache Hadoop to implement a scalable clustering algorithm. ...

Jan 20th

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December 2010 Meeting Followup

We closed out the year with a talk by Brian O’Connor ( seen above at the MacBook Air ). He outlined how UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center is using Hadoop and HBase in research. Once again Bronto graciously hosted us and provided food and drinks. Slides for Brian’s talk and the New and Noteworthy segment are below. 2010 was a good year for Hadoop in the Triangle. Looking...

Dec 18th

December TriHUG Meeting

We will be talking HBase and biotech. Come join us at 6:30pm on Tuesday December 7th at Bronto. Food and drinks at 6:30pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm. Brian O’Connor from the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center will discuss their work using HBase and Hadoop MapReduce to store and query information from large cancer resequencing projects. He will provide an overview of HBase along with the...

Nov 9th

September 2010 Meeting Followup

Another fantastic meeting. Again, it was a diverse mix from startups, big companies and academia; many of which are doing some *really* interesting stuff. Thanks again to our sponsor Lucid Imagination for the food and drinks and thanks to Bronto for the great facilities. We have one speaker slot available for our next meeting. Interested? Hit us up @trihug. -ryan

Sep 23rd

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September TriHUG Meeting

Speakers for the next meeting are lined up. We will meet at Bronto Software, Tuesday September 14th at 6:30pm. Details in the invite link below. REGISTER HERE Where it all began: Using Apache Hadoop for Search with Apache Lucene and Solr Grant Ingersoll Apache Hadoop was originally created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarrela as part of the Apache Nutch project’s need for large...

Aug 19th

July Meeting Follow-up

Our first meeting was a great success with somewhere around 25 atendees. It turns out that we have people in the Triangle using Hadoop for cancer research, quantitative finance, web analytics and a variety of other applications. Grant was furiously taking notes as ideas for future meetings were discussed. Look for announcements here on the blog, twitter and the mailing list. Thanks again to the...

Jul 22nd

July TriHUG Meeting

Interested in learning more about Hadoop or finding out what’s going on with Hadoop in the Triangle? Come out for the first meeting of the Triangle Hadoop Users Group scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday July 20th at Bronto Software. Register HERE Three presenters are lined up: Intro To Hadoop - Jeff Turner Setting up Your First Cluster - Chad Vawter Processing Megadata With Hadoop and Python...

Jul 8th