“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” - Marshall McLuhan
@MichaelCasp Exciting times at the Big Data conference in NYC!
Cloudera Impala is a Hive replacement that runs distributed HBase / HDFS queries rather than MapReduce jobs; claims to be up to 30X faster.
B.O. at #strataconf #hw2012 isn’t nearly as bad as #strangeloop. Do Big Data engineers & data scientists have better hygiene? #bigquestions
DurhamCounty Durham County has a new website. You can see it here: http://t.co/f2zzbsfK
http://t.co/zrCi0BP8 is doing amazing work to learn more about the state of communities. The day of the census has passed. #hadoopworld2012
Coolest conference swag EVER; @mikestable’s shirts don’t hold a candle. http://t.co/KpGt8PYJ
I certainly didn’t expect to be awoken at 6 AM every morning by the sound of chainsaws in NYC.
It’s exciting how much data we can now collect & analyze, but simultaneously horrifying when you consider the privacy implications. #hw2012
@mikestable I love how the solution to not manually cleaning the data is to farm it out to Internet peasants.
DEVOPS_BORAT When you are run DROP DATABASE you are have of many problem but Big Data is not of one of them.