Registrations to the next Hadoop User Group UK meetup have now opened: http://huguk.eventwax.com/hadoop-user-group-uk-2
The preliminary schedule: 10.00 – 10.15: Arriving and chatting 10.15 – 11.15: Practical MapReduce (Tom White, Cloudera) 11.15 – 12.15: Introducing Apache Mahout (Isabel Drost, ASF) 12.15 – 13.15: Lunch 13.15 – 14.15: Terrier (Iadh Ounis and Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow) 14.15 – 15.15: Having Fun with PageRank and MapReduce (Paolo Castagna, HP) 15.15 – 16.15: Apache HBase (Michael Stack, Powerset) 16.15 – 17.00: General chat, perhaps lightning talks (powered by Sun beer) 17.00 – 00.00: Discussions continues at a nearby pub The event is hosted by Sun in London, near Monument station, for more details see the event page or the blog: http://huguk.org/ /Johan Johan Oskarsson wrote: > I've started organizing the next Hadoop meetup in London, UK. The date > is April 14th and the presentations so far include: > > Michael Stack (Powerset): Apache HBase > Isabel Drost (Neofonie): Introducing Apache Mahout > Iadh Ounis and Craig Macdonalt (University of Glasgow): Terrier > Paolo Castagna (HP): "Having Fun with PageRank and MapReduce" > > Keep an eye on the blog for updates: http://huguk.org/ > > Help in the form of sponsoring (venue, beer etc) would be much > appreciated. Also let me know if you want to present. Personally I'd > love to see presentations from other Hadoop related projects (pig, hive, > hama etc). > > /Johan