Last week I conducted a course at the TDWI World Conference in New Orleans, LA called, “Introduction to Map/Reduce Data Transformations“.  If you weren’t able to make the session, my slides are embedded here.

I’m pleased to have been given the opportunity to introduce this new approach to in-database analytics and parallel data processing, in general. The most consistent feedback I had was that there wasn’t enough time to cover this topic in-depth, and attendees were eager to learn more! In that case, my previous post on educational resources for MapReduce may be of interest.

Since Aster Data Systems  introduced In-Database MapReduce for the Aster nCluster relational database, there has been tremendous interest in the data warehousing and technology community, with recent coverage in the NY Times and by influential blogs like DBMS2, Beyond Search, and Cloud N, just to name a few.

Hopefully TDWI will turn this into a 1/2-day course in the future. (If you agree, feel free to contact them at info@tdwi.org).

If anyone knows of other good resources on this emerging topic, please feel free to put links in the comments here.