Andy, Since there is a lot of data on the free data of the site, I cannot figure out which one is the one talked in the book. Any format differences might cause the source code to get exceptions. Some data is even in PDF format!
Thanks so much! Bing On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Andy Doddington <a...@doddington.net>wrote: > According to Page 15 of the book, this data is available from the US > National Climatic Data Center, at > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov. Once you get to this site, there is a menu of > links on the left-hand side of the > page, listed under the heading ‘Data & Products’. I suspect that the entry > labelled ‘Free Data’ is the most > likely area you need to investigate :-) > > Good Luck > > Andy D > > ———————————————————— > > On 12 Feb 2012, at 07:14, Bing Li wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am following the book, Hadoop: the Definitive Guide. However, I got > stuck > > because I could not get the NCDC Weather data that is used by the source > > code in the book. The Appendix C told me I could follow some instructions > > in www.hadoopbook.com. But I didn't get the instructions there. Could > you > > give me a hand? > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Best regards, > > Bing > >
