Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

October 7, 2013

Hortonworks Sandbox – Default Instructional Tool?

Filed under: BigData,Eclipse,Hadoop,Hortonworks,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 10:07 am

Visualizing Big Data: Actuate, Hortonworks and BIRT

From the post:

Challenge

Hadoop stores data in key-value pairs. While the raw data is accessible to view, to be usable it needs to be presented in a more intuitive visualization format that will allow users to glean insights at a glance. While a business analytics tool can help business users gather those insights, to do so effectively requires a robust platform that can:

  • Work with expansive volumes of data
  • Offer standard and advanced visualizations, which can be delivered as reports, dashboards or scorecards
  • Be scalable to deliver these visualizations to a large number of users

Solution

When paired with Hortonworks, Actuate adds data visualization support for the Hadoop platform, using Hive queries to access data from Hortonworks. Actuate’s commercial product suite – built on open source Eclipse BIRT – extracts data from Hadoop, pulling data sets into interactive BIRT charts, dashboards and scorecards, allowing users to view and analyze data (see diagram below). With Actuate’s familiar approach to presenting information in easily modified charts and graphs, users can quickly identify patterns, resolve business issues and discover opportunities through personalized insights. This is further enhanced by Actuate’s inherent ability to combine Hadoop data with more traditional data sources in a single visualization screen or dashboard.

A BIRT/Hortonworks “Sandbox” for both the Eclipse open source and commercial versions of BIRT is now available. As a full HDP environment on a virtual machine, the Sandbox allows users to start benefiting quickly from Hortonworks’ distribution of Hadoop with BIRT functionality.

If you know about “big data” you should be familiar with the Hortonworks Sandbox.

Sandbox is a personal, portable Hadoop environment that comes with a dozen interactive Hadoop tutorials. Sandbox includes many of the most exciting developments from the latest HDP distribution, packaged up in a virtual environment that you can get up and running in 15 minutes!

What you may not know is that Hortonworks partners are creating additional tutorials based on the sandbox.

I count seven (7) to date and more are coming.

The Sandbox may become the default instructional tool for Hadoop.

That would be a benefit to all users, whatever the particulars of their environments.

August 2, 2013

How-to: Use Eclipse with MapReduce in Cloudera’s QuickStart VM

Filed under: Cloudera,Eclipse,Hadoop,MapReduce — Patrick Durusau @ 6:26 pm

How-to: Use Eclipse with MapReduce in Cloudera’s QuickStart VM by Jesse Anderson.

From the post:

One of the common questions I get from students and developers in my classes relates to IDEs and MapReduce: How do you create a MapReduce project in Eclipse and then debug it?

To answer that question, I have created a screencast showing you how, using Cloudera’s QuickStart VM:

The QuickStart VM helps developers get started writing MapReduce code without having to worry about software installs and configuration. Everything is installed and ready to go. You can download the image type that corresponds to your preferred virtualization platform.

Eclipse is installed on the VM and there is a link on the desktop to start it.

Nice illustration of walking through the map reduce process.

I continue to be impressed by the use of VMs.

Would be a nice way to distribute topic map tooling.

April 16, 2013

How To Debug Solr With Eclipse

Filed under: Eclipse,Lucene,Solr — Patrick Durusau @ 11:49 am

How To Debug Solr With Eclipse by Doug Turnbull.

From the post:

Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldn’t quite figure out what was going on. Well Solr is open source so… next stop – Debuggersville!

Running Solr in the Eclipse debugger isn’t hard, but there are many scattered user group posts and blog articles that you’ll need to manually tie together into a coherent picture. So let me do you the favor of tying all of that info together for you here.

This looks very useful.

Curious of there are any statistical function debuggers?

That step you through the operations and show the state of values as they change?

Thinking that could be quite useful as a sanity test when the numbers just don’t jive.

August 31, 2012

Developing CDH Applications with Maven and Eclipse

Filed under: Cloudera,Eclipse,Hadoop,Maven — Patrick Durusau @ 10:54 am

Developing CDH Applications with Maven and Eclipse by Jon Natkins

Learn how to configure a basic Maven project that will be able to build applications against CDH

Apache Maven is a build automation tool that can be used for Java projects. Since nearly all the Apache Hadoop ecosystem is written in Java, Maven is a great tool for managing projects that build on top of the Hadoop APIs. In this post, we’ll configure a basic Maven project that will be able to build applications against CDH (Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop) binaries.

Maven projects are defined using an XML file called pom.xml, which describes things like the project’s dependencies on other modules, the build order, and any other plugins that the project uses. A complete example of the pom.xml described below, which can be used with CDH, is available on Github. (To use the example, you’ll need at least Maven 2.0 installed.) If you’ve never set up a Maven project before, you can get a jumpstart by using Maven’s quickstart archetype, which generates a small initial project layout.

I don’t have a Fairness Doctrine but thought since I had a post on make today that one on Maven would not be out of place.

Both of them are likely to figure in an active topic map/semantic application work.

BTW, since both “make” and “maven” have multiple meanings, how would you index this post to separate the uses in this post from other meanings?

Would it make a difference if, as appears above, some instances are surrounded with hyperlinks?

How would I indicate that the hyperlinks are identity references?

Or some subset of hyperlinks are identity references?

April 1, 2012

How to set up a maven project with Neo4j in Eclipse

Filed under: Eclipse,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 7:12 pm

How to set up a maven project with Neo4j in Eclipse

Peter Neubauer writes:

repeatedly there are questions on how to set up Neo4j with Eclipse and the Maven integration for it .

Which is followed by the “short” version. Makes me wonder if there is a “long” version? 😉

I don’t see this question/answer in the documentation. If someone thought enough about a topic to ask, it really should appear in the documentation.

December 23, 2011

Introducing Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5

Filed under: Eclipse,Google App Engine — Patrick Durusau @ 4:30 pm

Simple development of App Engine apps using Cloud SQL – Introducing Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5

From the post:

Since we added SQL support to App Engine in the form of Google Cloud SQL, the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team has been working hard on improving the developer experience for developing App Engine apps that can use a Cloud SQL instance as the backing database.

We are pleased to announce the availability of Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5. GPE 2.5 simplifies app development by eliminating the need for manual tasks like copying Cloud JDBC drivers, setting classpaths, typing in JDBC URLs or filling in JVM arguments for connecting to local/remote database instances.

I don’t guess Google will mind my scraping that feedburner crap at the end of the URL off for this post. Why browsers don’t do that automatically it is hard to say.

Scala IDE for Eclipse

Filed under: Eclipse,Scala — Patrick Durusau @ 4:30 pm

Scala IDE for Eclipse

We released the Scala IDE V2.0 for Eclipse today! After 9 months of intensive work by the community contributors, users and the IDE team we are really proud to release the new version. Not only is it robust and reliable but also comes with much improved performance and responsiveness. There are a whole lot of new features that make it a real pleasure to use, Report errors as you type, Project builder with dependency tracking, Definition Hyperlinking and Inferred type hovers, Code completion and better integration with Java build tools, and lots more. You can learn more about them all below. We hope you will enjoy using the new version and continue to help us with ideas and improvement suggestions, or just contribute them.

While working on V2.0 the team has been listening hard to what the IDE users need. Simply stated faster compilation, better debugging and better integration with established Java tools like Maven. The good news is the team is ready for and excited by the challenge. Doing V2.0 we learned a lot about the build process and now understand what is needed to make significant gains in large project compile times. This and providing a solid debugging capability will be the main thrust of the next IDE development cycle. More details will be laid out as we go through the project planning phase and establish milestones. Contributors will be most welcome and we have made it a lot easier to be one. So if you want us to get the next version faster, come and help!

A lot of effort has gone into this version of the IDE and we would like to recognize the people who have contributed so much time and energy to the success of the project.

November 23, 2011

Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) is Now Open Source

Filed under: Cloud Computing,Eclipse,Interface Research/Design,Java — Patrick Durusau @ 7:41 pm

Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) is Now Open Source by Eric Clayberg.

From the post:

Today is quite a milestone for the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE). Our team is very happy to announce that all of GPE (including GWT Designer) is open source under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) v1.0. GPE is a set of software development tools that enables Java developers to quickly design, build, optimize, and deploy cloud-based applications using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Speed Tracer, App Engine, and other Google Cloud services.

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As of today, all of the code is available directly from the new GPE project and GWT Designer project on Google Code. Note that GWT Designer itself is based upon the WindowBuilder open source project at Eclipse.org (contributed by Google last year). We will be adopting the same guidelines for contributing code used by the GWT project.

Important for the reasons given but also one possible model for topic map services. What if your topic map services were hosted in the cloud and developers could write against against it? That is they would not have to concern themselves with the niceties of topic maps but simply request the information of interest to them, using tools you have provided to make that easier for them.

Take for example the Statement of Disbursements that I covered recently. If that were hosted as a topic map in the cloud, a developer, say working for a resturant promoter, might want to query the topic map for who frequents eateries in a particular area. They are not concerned with the merging that has to take place between various budgets and the alignment of those merges with individuals, etc. They are looking for a list of places with House members alphabetically sorted after it.

November 21, 2011

How to combine Neo4j with GWT and Eclipse

Filed under: Eclipse,GWT,Neo4j — Patrick Durusau @ 7:35 pm

How to combine Neo4j with GWT and Eclipse by René Pickhardt.

From the post:

As stated before I did my first testings with Neo4j. Now I wanted to include Neo4j to GWT which is actually very straight forward but for some reasons I was fighting with it for quite a while. I even had to emberass myself by asking stupid questions on the neo4j mailinglist to which Peter and John Doran kindly responded.

Any way now I am excited to follow my research topics which I hope to answer by using neo4j.

A short (12 minutes or so) screencast of getting Neo4j, GWT and Eclipse together.

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