Mar 26, 2011
Open source, entirely self-contained VM (will also run on EC2!) of open source data tools that allow you to run a private data giant server all your own. This looks amazing, and I'm stoked to try it out for myself!
You can test out a number of different tasks on the site itself, but I also like the idea of being able to stand up a bunch of instances to crunch numbers extremely fast. Imagine using a chef script to provision on the fly to geocode and tag some massive data set!
(via FlowingData - you guys are awesome)