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Hack/Reduce 4 Ottawa

Saturday, August 13, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Gatineau, Canada

Hack/Reduce 4 Ottawa

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Event Details

Hack/Reduce is a free one-day big data hackathon. Developers get free access to a huge cluster with up to 500 nodes. The goal is to develop applications that extract interesting information from datasets and combinations of datasets. 

More information can be found at hackreduce.org/ottawa

Provided: 

  1. Free access to (Amazon EC2) clusters that can be scaled up according to your needs.
  2. Pre-loaded datasets (participants are encouraged to suggest datasets)
  3. Introduction to Hadoop and Map/Reduce with Java and Streaming (check and try github.com/hoppertravel/hackreduce)
  4. Support from experts in Hadoop and Map/Reduce
  5. Food and drinks
At the end of the event, participating teams and developers get to present what they have done, what they learned and what problems they faced. 
It's an opportunity to develop something great, learn to use new tech and meet people interested in big data development.
More info at hackreduce.org (The first Hack/Reductions were done in  Montreal, Toronto and Boston, you can check the event reports on the page)

 

For participants: 

  • Think about ideas that you could build
  • Check the list of datasets on github.com/hoppertravel/hackreduce. If you need more datasets for you project, send an email with a link to the datasets to Riku at  firstname@hopper.travel
  • Come with an existing team or find a team at the event
  • Just bring your laptop and be ready for a day of intense coding
  • Parking map/instructions: Parking map on Google

 

 

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