Meetings/2013-05-01

March 21

Wikimedia Tech Talk

June 19

What	Big Data Tools
How	Google Hangout on Air / YouTube stream + IRC for questions to the speakers.
When	Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 19:30 UTC (12:30 PDT), 60 minutes
Where	Physical space: Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA, 6th floor SF office, "Collab" space IRC: #wikimedia-dev ^connect YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkynLMhYWEU
Food	Brown bag - bring your own
Moderator	David Schoonover

Topics[edit]

Overview of the big data tools we have available at the Wikimedia Foundation. We'll be writing real queries to explore real data from the mobile site!

For background, check Analytics/Kraken

And a few links about the tools we'll be working with:

http://hive.apache.org/ -- Query Hadoop data using SQL
http://pig.apache.org/ -- A flexibile tool for processing unstructured data