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 ‘Thoughts’
SQL BI at Hadoop Summit = Awesomesauce!
Posted in Analysis Services, BigData, SQL, tagged Hadoop, hive, Thoughts on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Moving data to compute or compute to data? That is the Big Data question
Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged Chemistry, Scale-Out, Thoughts 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 [...]
Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy
Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged Scale-Out, Space, Thoughts 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 [...]
Travel Tuesday: Top 5 reasons to go to Costco in Taiwan (from a US expat)
Posted in Travel Tuesday, tagged Thoughts 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 [...]
It’s all about the little things…on the inside!
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Thoughts on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about! – Doctor Who: Earthshock, Peter Davison as the 5th Doctor (Story 122) A tad off course, but today, I was just wow’ed by my Apple Magic Touch mouse. Why do you ask? Because of the beauty [...]
The aggressive optimism of Hadoop
Posted in BigData, tagged Thoughts on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Aggressive optimism and a no enemies policy pays dividends – Eric14 aka Eric Baldeschwieler (@jeric14) during ApacheCon 2011 North America Thursday Keynote. After all of these years doing BI, why have I jumped on the bandwagon of Hadoop and Big Data? Well, if you read some of my previous blog posts like [...]
You know that I’m tired when…
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged Thoughts on September 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sorry that I haven’t blogged in awhile, but there’s lots of interesting things happening these days all in prep for the SQLPASS summit, eh?! It’s been long nights and lots of fun chaos! Saying this, you know that I’m tired when… you’re getting <3h of sleep / night you’re running all of your team meetings [...]

