For the 2012 Hadoop Summit, I will have the honor to co-present with Dave Mariani (@dmariani) from Klout in our session How Klout is changing the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI. Our session is currently scheduled for June 13th at 3:35pm but it is subject to change. Check out our session and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hadoop’
SQL BI at Hadoop Summit = Awesomesauce!
Posted in Analysis Services, BigData, SQL, tagged Hadoop, hive, Thoughts on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Installing Hadoop on OSX Lion (10.7)
Posted in BigData, tagged Configuration, Hadoop on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For starters, this isn’t a production setup, this is just so that I can do some quick Hadoop demos on my Macbook Air (2011). In this case, my configuration is OSX Lion, 4GB RAM, and 256GB SSD. As well, a serious shout out to the authors below whom I had referenced to create this post. [...]
A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community perspective)
Posted in BigData, tagged Architecture, Azure, Excel, Hadoop, hive, Thoughts on March 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
For a quick primer on Hadoop (from the perspective of the Microsoft SQL Community), as well as Microsoft Hadoop on Azure and Windows, check out the SlideShare.NET presentation below. Above the cloud: Big Data and BI View more PowerPoint from Denny Lee Note, as well, there is a great end-to-end Microsoft Hadoop on Azure and [...]
BI and Big Data–the best of both worlds!
Posted in Analysis Services, BigData, PowerPivot, Random Thoughts, tagged Architecture, Excel, Hadoop, Javascript, Thoughts on March 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As part of the excitement of the Strata Conference this week, Microsoft has been talking about Big Data and Hadoop. It started off with Dave Campbell’s question: Do we have the tools we need to navigate the New World of Data?. And some of the tooling call outs specific to Microsoft include references to PowerPivot, [...]
Hadoop JavaScript– Microsoft’s VB shift for Big Data
Posted in BigData, Random Thoughts, tagged Hadoop, Javascript, Thoughts on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
One of the cool things about the Hadoop on Azure CTP is its Interactive JavaScript Console – it allows users query and visualize data on top HDFS using a JavaScript framework. For example, below is a graph pie visualization within a browser generated by the Interactive JavaScript console using graph.pie function. Why is this important [...]
Connecting Power View to Hadoop on Azure–An #awesomesauce way to view Big Data in the Cloud
Posted in BigData, PowerPivot, Reporting Services, tagged Azure, Hadoop, Power View on February 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The post Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud provided the step-by-step details on how to connect PowerPivot to your Hadoop on Azure cluster. And while this is really powerful, one of the great features as part of SQL Server 2012 is Power View (formerly known [...]
Cool Hadoop on Azure How To Videos by @bradoop
Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged Azure, Hadoop 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)
Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud
Posted in BigData, Cloud, PowerPivot, SQL, tagged Excel, Hadoop, hive 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 [...]
Hadoop on Azure: HiveQL query against Azure Blob Storage
Posted in BigData, tagged Azure, Blobstore, Hadoop, hive 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 [...]
Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP
Posted in BigData, tagged Azure, Blobstore, Hadoop, Javascript 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 [...]

