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.
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Hi guys
You might want to connect with Charles Richardson. Koos has his contact info. he is an experienced web based programmer. He hates Java but probably can help you connect mapreduce with cellarspot. He loves wine and good food so he may be willing to help. Tell him we will supply the wine. Regarding food pairing: have you talked to the wine guys at the Metropolitan Market in Queen Anne? Ask for Lenny. Metropolitan may be interested to post on your website and give you a head start with some great food pairings.
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