Jump Start onto Spark 0.7.2 and Scala 2.9.3 on Mac OSX

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Spark is an in-memory open source cluster computing system allowing for fast iterative and interactive analytics.  Spark utilizes Scala – a type-safe objected oriented language with functional properties that is fully interoperable with Java.  For more information about Spark, please refer to http://spark-project.org.  To test out Spark, you can install the stand-alone version on Mac OSX. This is a follow up to my previous blog post on the topic – Installing Spark 0.6.1 Standalone on OSX Mountain Lion (10.8).  Since this blog post, Spark has added some interesting features including: – Spark Streaming as part of Spark 0.7 – An associated…

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Project “ChâteauKebob”: Big Data to BI End-to-End Healthcare Auditing Compliance

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Originally posted on Ayad Shammout's SQL & BI Blog:
Authors: Ayad Shammout & Denny Lee It may sound like a rather odd name for an End-to-End Auditing Compliance project – and the roots admittedly enough are based on the authors’ prediliction toward great food in the city of Montréal – but there actually is an analogous association! Château means manor house or palace and kebob refers to meat that is cooked over or next to flames; large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat, it may be served on plates, or in sandwiches (mouth watering yet).  Château…

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