A few weeks back I was at the Basis Technology Government Users Conference in Washington, DC. It was an interesting experience, meeting people from agencies responsible for processing lots of important data. One thing I noticed is that in the Bay area, your name tag at an event tries to convey that you’re working on super-cool stuff. Here in DC, it’s more cool to be classified. For example, name tags more…

Here’s the presentation I gave at the ACM data mining unconference on elastic web mining – how to create scalable, reliable and cost effective web mining solutions using an open source stack (Hadoop, Cascading, Bixo) running in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). [slideshare id=2407600&doc=acmuctalk-091102194640-phpapp02] But I don’t see my notes showing up, so here’s the PDF version with full notes, which make the resulting slides a lot more meaningful. [slideshare more…