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Archive for January, 2012

Moving data to compute or compute to data? That is the Big Data question

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Dorky attempts at geek Shakespere aside; as the volume, complexity, and variability of your data systems increase in … entropy …, this becomes a fundamental question in whether one scales up or scale out their data problem. Apologies for the nerdy chemistry references in advance – which starts with this picture of Dr. Arthur Grosser [...]

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Cool Hadoop on Azure How To Videos by @bradoop

Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged , on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

A big shout out to Brad Sarsfield (@bradoop) for creating these great How-To videos for Hadoop on Azure.   How To: Upload Data and Use the WordCount Sample with Hadoop Services for Windows Azure (video)     Run the Pi Estimator Sample on Hadoop on Windows Azure (video)

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Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »

As I am writing more about Big Data, I’m been asked whether we need to have traditional relational or cube systems now that we have Big Data / NoSQL / Hadoop.  My responses are to note that these are different systems that serve different purposes even though both are used to better understand data. But [...]

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Sunny Sunday: Tofino

Posted in Foodie Friday, Sunny Sunday, tagged on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is a picture of an isolated beach in the wonderful town of Tofino (yes, I actually took it!).  Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island – if you are surfer, camper, hiker, or just plain old nature lover – this is a beautiful place to hang out.  Drive up from Victoria to Nanaimo [...]

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Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud

Posted in BigData, Cloud, PowerPivot, SQL, tagged , , on January 21, 2012 | 12 Comments »

. “I caught a fish thiiiiis biiig” – On stage with Ted Kummert during the PASS 2011 Keynote on Big Data (thanks to Karen Lopez @datachick for the pic) . . During the PASS 2011 Keynote (back in October 2011), I had the honor to demo Hadoop on Windows / Azure.   One of the key [...]

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Travel Tuesday: Top 5 reasons to go to Costco in Taiwan (from a US expat)

Posted in Travel Tuesday, tagged on January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »

. . . I love Pittsburgh, they put fries on nachos here. – Pete Lattimer, Warehouse 13 . . . For those un-familar with the reference, Warehouse 13 is an awesome Syfy show…and Costco is a warehouse store – yeah, weak connection here. Yet another themed blog series Starting with the recent Foodie Friday blog [...]

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Sunny Sunday: Rattlesnake Ledge

Posted in Sunny Sunday, tagged on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

When you hike up to Rattlesnake Ridge, you get a nice 270’ view of Rattlesnake Ridge area.  For more info, check out: ttp://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/rattle-snake-ledge — About “Sunny Sunday”: The Sunny Sunday blog posts are photos from various travel and/or outdoor (hiking) trips.

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Hadoop on Azure: HiveQL query against Azure Blob Storage

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The posting Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP provides a quick way to upload files to your Azure Blob storage account and connect Hadoop on Azure CTP to it.  Now that you have done that, one of the first things you may want to do is to interact with the data. To [...]

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Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »

One of the cool ways to run Hadoop on Azure is to have it connect to Azure Blob storage via your Windows Azure Storage account.  To setup your Azure storage account, please refer to http://windows.azure.com. The tasks below will allow you to setup your Hadoop on Azure CTP account to connect to an existing Azure [...]

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Foodie Friday: Taiwanese dessert 芋圓

Posted in Foodie Friday, tagged , , on January 13, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I realized that from my tweets and Facebook posts (thanks Facebook Timeline) – I often go outside of the realm of being a nerd and display all sort of passion on travel, outdoor stuff, and of course food! So one of the things, I’m going to start adding to my repertoire of blog posts will [...]

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