Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week commentary focused on Hadoop in action. Walmart discussed its plans for Hadoop, and an article on CIO.com discussed Hadoop’s impact on the insurance industry. See the full stories below..
Is there a story for the Hadoop Storage Stack (HDFS+HBase) on Solid State Drive (SSD)? This is a question that I have been asked by quite a few people in the last two days, mostly by people at the OpenComputeSummit. This piece discusses the possible use cases of using SSD with Hadoop or HBase.
Exploring the United Nations population projections with RCharts.
- Data munging in R so much easier using ‘dplyr’ package
- Stacked area chart that shows the changing regional distribution of the population between 1950 and 2100..
- R charts can be interactive as you edit the data.
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