Building AI? Learn from the era of Big Data & ask a search expert
Enterprises and others building AI face some difficult choices – but there are already many with skills and experience to help!
Why Cassandra?
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity of attending Cassandra Day in DC, a one-day conference put on by Datastax. As an application developer and designer, my role is building…
BioSolr — Stop Reinventing The Wheel in Life Science Search
I was privileged to be hosted in Cambridge UK by our buddies at Flax two weeks ago. During my time over in the UK, I got a chance to…
Detecting Reddit Voting Rings Using This Weird Little Data Trick
A wolf in sheeps clothing Wow, so apparently the Reddit community has outed (and as of 15 minutes ago, ousted) colleague Doug Turnbull as the vile spammer that he…
Forget Search, Lets Talk Discovery – A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
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…
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…
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…