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I used Hadoop a little bit in my old job and found that it was a very handy tool to have. I used it to test a change to some logic that tried to extract item quantities from titles in a very large product catalog. It's not really a classic map/reduce application, but I think it would have been much more work to run the tests if we didn't already have the data on the Hadoop file system. We also used it a bit to cluster similar items. I've subsequently picked up the "Hadoop in Action" book and read through some of it. It seems like a pretty good introduction for people wanting to learn about Map/Reduce. Mark On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > play the guitar > "real" statistics (not "have t-test, will travel!") > cook a really good roast > graph theory > map/reduce > Hebrew > some machine learning (esp. wrt parsing) > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> map/reduce >> coffeescript, node.js, other server side javascripts >> XSLT >> How to not make a not-completely-hideous-looking web app. >> >> -Ross. >> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Edward Iglesias >> <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) on >>> changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a >> while >>> back (if you participated, thank you) but this stuff changes so quickly I >>> thought I would ask this another way. What do you wish you had time to >>> learn? >>> >>> My list includes >>> >>> >>> CouchDB(NoSQL in general) >>> neo4j >>> nodejs >>> prototype >>> API Mashups >>> R >>> >>> Don't be afraid to include Latin or Greek History. I'm just going for a >>> snapshot of System angst at not knowing everything. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Edward Iglesias >>> Systems Librarian >>> Central Connecticut State University >>> >> > > > > -- > Bill Dueber > Library Systems Programmer > University of Michigan Library