Recent Posts

• June 08, 2016

  Installing Jupyter (IPython Notebook) on HDP 2.4

  Update: I revised the old article from January 2016 to work with the currently available Hortonworks Dataplatform HDP 2.4 and Jupyter. Thanks to Carolyn Duby for mentioning the updated download location for pypa setup tools!Since we're using the H...

• January 18, 2016

  Installing Jupyter (IPython Notebook) on HDP 2.3.2

  Update: I revised the old article from July 2015 to work with the currently available Hortonworks Dataplatform HDP 2.3.2 and Jupyter, which itself is the updated version/successor of IPython Notebook. Furthermore I included the tips mentioned in t...

• July 26, 2015

  Install multiple python kernels for IPython in ubuntu

  Here is a quick one: Everytime I'm using python I struggle to select the correct version. Yes there is virtualenv, but to me this seems unnerving and distractful. So here is a way to install both python-kernels for python2 and python3 in ipython n...

• July 18, 2015

  Installing IPython Notebook on HDP 2.3

  Since we're using the Hortonworks Data Plattform at work, I toyed around with the HDP 2.3 Sandbox to see whats inside. One thing I've found is, they upgraded the Apache Spark Version from 1.2 to the more recently 1.3.1 release. Needless to say, it...

• July 08, 2015

  Apache Log Parsing with Hadoop Hive - Part 0

  This is going to be my first new mini-series of posts regarding my current tasks at work: parsing an Apache logfile with Hadoop Hive. During this mini-series, we will talk about on how to import logfiles into hive using simple unix commands and a ...