Big Data Cookbook

Spark and Shark tutorial/course given at Strata, materials online.

—Jason

This is a great post using Python, Neo4j, and Bulbflow to build a recommendation system using a graph database. It looks like they crawled SnapGuide to get their data for this.

The code for bulbflow is on GH.

Here is another post on Graph Recommendation Systems using Gremlin.

—Jason

Article on using SolrCloud for low latency analytics. Example configs on GH.

—Jason

This is an awesome presentation by Russel Jurney on building data driven applications that use big data.

Russel is in the midst of writing a book on this topic and the book is currently available for review on O’reilly’s Open Feedback Publishing System

—Jason

Great blog post at Chimpler on using Storm to compute rollups on impression logs and storing the results in MongoDB. Code in GH

—Jason

Great blog post on mining the Twitter stream for religious tweets using Storm. Code on GH.

—Jason

Great (short) presentation on “Storing Time Series Metrics With Cassandra and Composite Columns” by Joe Stein from Medialets. With code on GH.

—Jason