Category: Mortar

Reading and Writing Parquet files with Mortar

Using Mortar to read/write Parquet files You can load Parquet formatted files into Mortar, or tell Mortar to output data in Parquet format using the Hadoop connectors that can be built from here or downloaded from here. Last year, Cloudera, in collaboration with Twitter and others, released a new Apache Hadoop-friendly, binary, columnar file format […]

Extracting Insight from FBO Data Using Mortar and Elasticsearch – Part 4

Earlier this year, Sunlight foundation filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit requested solication and award notices from FBO.gov. In November, Sunlight received over a decade’s worth of information and posted the information on-line for public downloading. I want to say a big thanks to Ginger McCall and Kaitlin Devine for […]

Extracting Insights from FBO.Gov data – Part 3

Earlier this year, Sunlight foundation filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit requested solication and award notices from FBO.gov. In November, Sunlight received over a decade’s worth of information and posted the information on-line for public downloading. I want to say a big thanks to Ginger McCall and Kaitlin Devine for […]

Extracting Insights from FBO.Gov data – Part 2

Earlier this year, Sunlight foundation filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit requested solication and award notices from FBO.gov. In November, Sunlight received over a decade’s worth of information and posted the information on-line for public downloading. I want to say a big thanks to Ginger McCall and Kaitlin Devine for […]

Extracting Insights from FBO.Gov data – Part 1

Extracting Insights from FBO.Gov data – Part 1 Earlier this year, Sunlight foundation filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. The lawsuit requested solication and award notices from FBO.gov. In November, Sunlight received over a decade’s worth of information and posted the information on-line for public downloading. I want to say a big […]