Author Archives: Michael Noll

Hadoop tutorials available

By Michael Noll on September 2, 2010

With the relaunch of our quuxlabs website, I have also migrated my Hadoop articles from my personal homepage to our tutorials section. The tutorials cover the following topics: Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux … Continue reading →

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Reference implementation of SPEAR ranking algorithm released

By Michael Noll on July 10, 2010

We have just released the “reference” implementation of our SPEAR ranking algorithm. The library is written in the Python programming language, and should be straight-forward to use. You can install the library via Python’s setuptools/easy_install or download it from GitHub. … Continue reading →

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Author Archives: Michael Noll

Hadoop tutorials available

Reference implementation of SPEAR ranking algorithm released

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