My girlfriend, originally from Bangalore, India, invited me to discover her country for the first time. We planned an itinerary covering both South and North India, visiting cities like Bangalore, Mysore, Hampi, Delhi, and Agra.
Whether for a short walk in the forest or a multi-day trek in the mountains, having a good mapping application on your phone has become essential. Gone are the days of getting lost with a water-damaged map! Over the years, I have tested many applications, and three of them have caught my attention for their reliability and features dedicated to hiking.
My little brother Michel was on an M2 internship in Gothenburg, so my mother and I decided to visit him. We chose a week in late May, early June to take advantage of the Swedish spring.
Ever since Léa left for Annecy, we’d been planning to get together for a weekend of snowshoeing. We decided to spend the night at Le Nant du Beurre, a refuge situated at an altitude of 2080 meters in the Bauges massif.
My girlfriend and I decided to spend a week in Croatia this summer. For this first trip to the country, we chose to concentrate on the southern islands, which are relatively uncrowded.
We had booked our accommodation and flights online, but we hadn’t yet decided on our means of transport. We knew we’d be taking the boats, but we decided to rent a car on each of the islands.
My girlfriend and I decided to spend a week in Iceland this summer. For this first trip to the country, we chose to concentrate on the south, so as not to spread ourselves too thin.
This summer has been pretty busy compared to the rest of the year.
We started with a traditional climbing course with Tristan from Rendez-vous Vertical in the Chassezac gorges. This enabled us to learn how to handle ropes and friends. The first falls were pretty scary, but once we got over that hurdle, our confidence was there.
Some time ago, I went climbing with a new stranger at Murmur Pantin. We had a beer (after the climb, of course) and he told me about his plans to climb the Aiguille Dibona. We had a good feeling about it, but hadn’t had the chance to climb together again.
Apache Spark™ is a powerful engine for large-scale, real-time data processing.
It offers APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R, can work with Hadoop, Mesos or standalone.
It can access several data sources such as HDFS, Cassandra, HBase and S3.
When we want to carry out a statistical or other study, an essential step is to obtain and process data.
Here, we’re talking about obtaining data sets.
There are many possibilities available for this. But Quandl offers a large collection of datasets from various sources. It also offers “Collections”, which are thematically aggregated datasets.
