As you might know, Cellarspot was created and is maintained/extended by a group of third year University of Washington computer science students (including myself). As you probably didn't know, two of them are in a distributed computing course mostly focused on Hadoop (an open-source, Java-based MapReduce engine). The point of the quarter has come around where we're in need of a final project, and the two of us are trying to find a way to apply MapReduce to Cellarspot (or at least eventually) to provide a cool service to our users.
One idea we thought of was a specialized, wine-based search engine that would crawl stores, groups, clubs, blogs, and anything else we found relevant. Another idea was to create a powerful food and wine pairing recommendation system, but we don't have enough data yet to produce useful recommendations.
I think we'll be able to find a cool way to apply MapReduce to Cellarspot.
One idea we thought of was a specialized, wine-based search engine that would crawl stores, groups, clubs, blogs, and anything else we found relevant. Another idea was to create a powerful food and wine pairing recommendation system, but we don't have enough data yet to produce useful recommendations.
I think we'll be able to find a cool way to apply MapReduce to Cellarspot.