+1 My $0.02 is look look around and see problems u can solve…Its better to get a list of problems and see if u can model a solution using map-reduce framework
An example is as follows PROBLEM Build a Cars Pricing Model based on advertisements on Craigs list OBJECTIVE Recommend a price to the Craigslist car seller when the user gives info about make,model,color,miles DATA required Collect RSS feeds daily from Craigs List (don't pound their website , else they will lock u down) DESIGN COMPONENTS - Daily RSS Collector - pulls data and puts into HDFS - Data Loader - Structures the columns u need to analyze and puts into HDFS - Hive Aggregator and analyzer - studies and queries data and brings out recommendation models for car pricing - REST Web service to return query results in XML/JSON - iPhone App that talks to web service and gets info There u go…this should keep a couple of students busy for 3 months I find this kind of problem statement and solutions simpler to understand because its all there in the real world ! An example of my way of thinking led to me founding this non profit called www.medicalsidefx.org that gives users valuable metrics regarding medical side fx. It uses Hadoop to aggregate , Lucene to search….This year I am redesigning the core to use Hive :-) Good luck Sanjay From: Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com<mailto:michael_se...@hotmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>" <user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>> Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:46 AM To: "user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>" <user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Project ideas Drink heavily? Sorry. Let me rephrase. Part of the exercise is for you, the student to come up with the idea. Not solicit someone else for a suggestion. This is how you learn. The exercise is to get you to think about the following: 1) What is Hadoop 2) How does it work 3) Why would you want to use it You need to understand #1 and #2 to be able to #3. But at the same time... you need to also incorporate your own view of the world. What are your hobbies? What do you like to do? What scares you the most? What excites you the most? Why are you here? And most importantly, what do you think you can do within the time period. (What data can you easily capture and work with...) Have you ever seen 'Eden of the East' ? ;-) HTH On May 21, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Anshuman Mathur <ans...@gmail.com<mailto:ans...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello fellow users, We are a group of students studying in National University of Singapore. As part of our course curriculum we need to develop an application using Hadoop and map-reduce. Can you please suggest some innovative ideas for our project? Thanks in advance. Anshuman CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.
