Monthly Archives: November 2009

How to use a raw MapReduce job in Cascading

Cascading is a great abstraction over MapReduce. However, sometimes you may have code for an existing MapReduce job or want to drop directly to Hadoop for efficiency. Even if you’re using raw MapReduce jobs, Cascading can still be useful in planning the overall data pipeline. The code below is an example of how to use a [...]
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install enchant dictionaries

I had a bit of a hard time getting enchant installed with dictionaries on Mac OS X. Here’s how to do it: sudo port install enchant # you'll need MacPorts 1.8.* for this Then download the dictionaries from the OpenOffice wiki. Next, place the files in ~/.enchant like so: $ tree .enchant/ .enchant/ `-- myspell |-- en_US.aff [...]
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