So ... there's clearly a lot of interest in integrating R and Hadoop. Today's webinar was a record-setter for Revolution Analytics, with more than 1000 people signing up to learn how to access Hadoop data from R with the packages from the open-source RHadoop project. If you didn't catch the live webinar, don't fret: the slides and replay are available for download, and you can learn more about the RHadoop packages in the white paper from CTO David Champagne, "Advanced ‘Big Data’ Analytics with R and Hadoop".
For those looking for commercial support using Hadoop and R together, RevoConnectR for Hadoop will be available with Revolution R Enterprise 5.0 Server later this year, which includes support for the RHadoop packages on Red Hat Linux with Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop.
Revolution Analytics Webinars: Leveraging R in Hadoop Environments
Any chance you could transcode this talk into a Mac friendly format? The video is currently in a WMV container, but it's using the g2m4 codec, which is currently unplayable on a Mac.
(Apparently the ffmpeg project just added support for this codec last month, but installing the bleeding edge version of that requires cloning a git repository, compiling from source, etc, etc - I'm assuming you'd like to disseminate this seminar widely.)
Thanks!
Posted by: Tarek | September 23, 2011 at 09:46
@Tarek We're hoping to have a version of this talk up on YouTube shortly -- we'll update this post when it's live.
Posted by: David Smith | September 23, 2011 at 11:24
Fantastic, thanks!
Posted by: Tarek | September 26, 2011 at 12:23
Hey David, any updates on getting this talk up on YouTube? I know I'm not the only R user with a Mac out there... :)
Posted by: Tarek | October 07, 2011 at 10:04
Hi Tarek, We hit a snag -- we uploaded the WMV to YouTube but the conversion failed. We're trying to find a way to convert it to a format that YouTube will accept. I'll post here when we get it working.
Posted by: David Smith | October 07, 2011 at 10:20