Google Maps the Amazon River…

File this under amazing…

“Many areas of the Amazon, including Rio Negro Reserve, are under the protection of the Brazilian government with restricted access to the public, so we hope that this Street View collection provides access to this special corner of the planet that many of us otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to experience. Together with FAS, we’re thrilled to help everyone from researchers and scientists to armchair explorers around the world learn more about the Amazon, and better understand how local communities there are working to preserve this unique environment for future generations,” the Google team said.


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Crunch

https://github.com/cloudera/crunch

Crunch is a Java library for writing, testing, and running MapReduce pipelines, based on Google’s FlumeJava. Its goal is to make pipelines that are composed of many user-defined functions simple to write, easy to test, and efficient to run.

Crunch shares a core philosophical belief with Google’s FlumeJava: novelty is the enemy of adoption. For developers, learning a Java library requires much less up-front investment than learning a new programming language. Crunch provides full access to the power of Java for writing functions, managing pipeline execution, and dynamically constructing new pipelines, obviating the need to switch back and forth between a data flow language and a real programming language. ~ Simplifying MapReduce through Java