Bok Tonci, You'll find good dataset pointers here:
http://www.simpy.com/user/otis/search/dataset You may find inspiration for Hadoop usage here, assuming you have ML background: http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/algorithms.html Oh, and you may also want to look out for GSOC (Google Summer of Code). Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Hadoop ecosystem search :: http://search-hadoop.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tonci Buljan <tonci.bul...@gmail.com> > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 9:24:53 AM > Subject: Re: Hadoop as master's thesis > > Thank you for your reply. > > > I didn't mention that I already installed Hadoop on 2 machines back at home > (for a essay on Hadoop which I did), one as a namenode and datanode and one > as a datanode only. Everything worked perfect. I would really try to install > it on more machines to see how cluster works in more detail. So I was > thinking:” Now I have a cluster, where do I find a large dataset to work > with?”. > > > I like your idea about publicly available datasets, do you have any links > on that? > > The other idea, about student grades is also great (thank you for that) and > I might just start with that. > > > Thank you very much, you both really helped me. > > > On 1 March 2010 15:15, Mark Kerzner wrote: > > > Tonci, > > > > to start with, you can run Hadoop on one computer in pseudo-cluster mode. > > Installing and configuring will be enough headache on its own. Then you can > > think of a problem, such as process student records and grades and find > > some > > statistics, or grade and their future achievements. Or, you can look at > > some > > publicly available datasets and so something with them. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Tonci Buljan > > wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm thinking of using Hadoop as a subject in my master's thesis in > > > Computer > > > Science. I'm supposed to solve some kind of a problem with Hadoop, but > > > can't > > > think of any :)). > > > > > > We have a lab with 10-15 computers and I tough of installing Hadoop on > > > those computers, and now I should write some kind of a program to run on > > my > > > cluster. > > > > > > I really hope you understood my problem :). I really need any kind of > > > suggestion. > > > > > > > > > P.S. Sorry for my bad English, I'm from Croatia. > > > > >
