Data Analysis with R and Google BigQuery

This blog post describes the process of staging data in Google Cloud Storage and then mapping this to Google BigQuery to provide a low-cost SQL interface for Big Data analysis.  There is an R package for connecting to Google Big Query, called bigrquerythat can be used to connect to Google BigQuery and interface with it …

Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 3: Hadoop

This is Part 3 of my series of four blog articles recording my experiences trying out the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this blog-post I cover provisioning a pre-configured Hadoop service in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle provide several Big-Data-in-the-Cloud service offerings including: Big Data (enterprise Big Data based …

Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 1

This blog post is the first in a 4 part series where I document my experiences signing up for the 30 day free trial for Oracle Cloud services.    In subsequent posts, to follow shortly after this, I document creating a MySQL database cloud instance (Part 2), a 3 node Hadoop Cluster (Part 3) and …