Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I recently wrote about how I'd historically been using Pig for some daily and some ad-hoc data analysis, and how I'd found Hive to be a much friendly tool for my purposes. As I mentioned then, I'm not a data analyst by any stretch of the imagination, but have occasional need to use these kinds of tools to get my job done. The title of this post (while originally a placeholder for something more…
This post title is inspired by this Google Plus post, although I've been meaning to write this post for a few days anyway (it's just a catchier title to describe the same thing). I'm not a data scientist, analyst or even a hard-code Hadoop user by any stretch of the imagination, but on occasion I need to do some log analysis when there is simply too much data to force through Awk (as much as I…