Intro to Scalding by @posco and @argyris by Marti Hearst.
From the post:
On Thursday we learned about an alternative language for analyzing big data: Scalding. It’s built on Scala and is used extensively by the Twitter Revenue group. Oscar Boykin presented a lecture that he and Argyris Zymnis put together for us:
(video – see Marti’s post)
Because scalding is built on the functional programming language Scala, it has advantage oover Pig in that you can have the equivalent of user-defined functions directly in your code. See for the lecture notes more details. Be sure watch the video to get all the details especially since Oscar managed to make us all laugh throughout his lecture. Thanks guys!
Another great lecture from Marti’s class, “Analyzing Big Data with Twitter.”
When the revenue department of a business, at least a successful business, starts using a technology, it’s time to take notice.