Beginners guide to enhancing Solr/Lucene search with Mahouts Machine Learning
Learn you some Mahout for great good! Yesterday, John and I gave a talk to the DC Hadoop Users Group about using Mahout with Solr to perform Latent Semantic…
Debugging “Wrong FS expected: file:///” exception from HDFS
I just spent some time putting together some basic Java code to read some data from HDFS. Pretty basic stuff. No map reduce involved. Pretty boilerplate code like the…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…
Why FoundationDB Might Be All Its Cracked Up To Be
When I first heard about FoundationDB, I couldnt imagine how it could be anything but vaporware. Seemed like Unicorns crapping happy rainbows to solve all your problems. As Im…
Lucene 4 Finite State Automata in 10 minutes (Intro & Tutorial)
\n \n Sample Automaton\n \n \n\n This article is intended to help you bootstrap your ability to work with Finite State Automata (note automata == plural of automaton). Automata…
Charlottesvilles Big Data Meetup – What is a Data Scientist?
Scott and I ventured out of the office yesterday evening to check out a new group starting up– Charlottesvilles Big Data Group. The most exciting thing about the group…
Code quality is a dial too
This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesvilles Neon Guild where Ill be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If youre local, Id love…
Backing up Virtual Machines in VirtualBox
And now to the fun subject of virtual machine images! My computer blue screened the other day. So I got fairly paranoid. This is the second time in a…
Real-time Doctest Checking In Vim
Vim is a terrific editor. The one thing that kills me though is “the cycle”–the cycle of going from Vim to the console to try out what I just…
Making Ubuntu 12.04 not crawl in Virtualbox
So I’ve got a new hooptie laptop (a pimped out Sager NP9170). Since I’m pretty much changing everything about my career, I thought I’d stick to one thing staying…
Switching Jobs – Damn The Torpedoes
Hi! Im Doug Turnbull, the new guy. Im really excited to be joining Open Source Connections. Ive been seeing first hand how capable my new colleagues are and am…