Getting Hadoop and RHadoop to work

I managed to get Hadoop and RHadoop installed on my workstation.

1. Install Hadoop following these suggestions;
2. Install Thrift following these suggestions;
3. Install "rmr", "rhdfs", and "plyrmr" here.

This post is also quite helpful. 

RHadoop

Looks like RHadoop is still the tool of choice for R-based big data analysis.

I found this post helpful to get Hadoop installed on my workstation.

The Most Comprehensive Review of Comic Books Teaching Statistics

Good teaching resources.

100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics

Useful and fun.