Ted, Greetings back at you. It has been a while.
Check out Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer's book about text processing with hadoop: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Ted Pedersen <tpede...@d.umn.edu> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm teaching an undergraduate Computer Science class that is using > Hadoop quite heavily, and would like to include some case studies at > various points during this semester. > > We are using Tom White's "Hadoop The Definitive Guide" as a text, and > that includes a very nice chapter of case studies which might even > provide enough material for my purposes. > > But, I wanted to check and see if there were other case studies out > there that might provide motivating and interesting examples of how > Hadoop is currently being used. The idea is to find material that goes > beyond simply saying "X uses Hadoop" to explaining in more detail how > and why X are using Hadoop. > > Any hints would be very gratefully received. > > Cordially, > Ted > > -- > Ted Pedersen > http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse >