Specifically, we participated at at the City of Baltimore location, which was held at Advertising.com's nice offices next to the Inner Harbor.
We put together a plan to process airline flight data and submitted our project for the competition: The main goal is to collect code, data, documentation, and presentations that we can share as an example of how to take advantage of Big Data.
We got great help from Vlad Korolev, which really enabled us to meet our goals. All the files are being stored on github. We'll probably publish a web page to, using the URL: www.planebigdata.com sometime in the near future.
In a short order, we (mostly Vlad) was able to:
- Code up a flight KML translator
- build up a maven project file (pom.xml)
- setup an project on CloudBees to have Jenkins kick off the maven build periodically
- Registered the domain: planebigdata.com
- Coded up the converter which takes the KML data and outputs a tab separated data file. This then would be used by future Map/Reduce code.
- Present our progress brief at the end. The review of event participants at Baltimore was broadcasted live via Google.
Next, we'll continue to work the site and get more folks involved to help out.
The Civic Hacking event was a great and interesting opportunity which R2AD was proud to be a part of.
