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Hack/Reduce 4 Ottawa
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. Check out www.hackreduce.org
Hack/Reduce 4 was organized in Ottawa on Saturday August 13th 2011.
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Great event
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Read about Hack/Reduce Ottawa
We wrote a blog post about Hack/Reduce Ottawa on the hackreduce site: www.hackreduce.org.
The kind Shopify folks also did a write-up about their experience: http://www.shopify.com/technology/3821872-hack-reduce-ottawa
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Hack/Reduce finished!
Unfortunately all good things end at some point...
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People shop the most on Fridays!
Petro found out that people shop the most of Fridays. Saturday is a close second. Petro mined the Shopify data of US orders.
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Hack/Reduce 4 Ottawa Kick-Off
Even though it's a beautiful day here in Ottawa, 50 developers have made it out to tame some big data. Stay tuned for some amazing Hack/Reductions from Ottawa brought to you by Hopper, Infoglutton and Shopify!