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Alex Woolford

Lafayette, CO

http://woolford.io

I was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States in 2004 following a go-for-broke journey across India, south-east Asia, and Australia. I now live in Lafayette, CO with my wife and two boys.

I'm particularly interested in data science using Python, R and (most recently) Java.

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37 votes

Increase memory available to PySpark at runtime

apache-spark pyspark asked Jul 16, 2015 at 21:19
stackoverflow.com

14 votes

how to efficiently move data from Kafka to an Impala table?

hadoop apache-kafka flume impala asked Jan 25, 2016 at 23:54
stackoverflow.com

12 votes

Spark job in Java: how to access files from 'resources' when run on a cluster

java apache-spark asked Apr 17, 2016 at 18:50
stackoverflow.com

12 votes

Preseed doesn't automatically select network interface on Ubuntu 14.04; automated install needs human input

pxe preseed asked May 3, 2015 at 4:41
askubuntu.com

11 votes

save Spark dataframe to Hive: table not readable because "parquet not a SequenceFile"

apache-spark hive apache-spark-sql pyspark asked Jul 17, 2015 at 18:53
stackoverflow.com

11 votes

Can Hive recursively descend into subdirectories without partitions or editing hive-site.xml?

hadoop mapreduce hive asked Nov 5, 2014 at 21:43
stackoverflow.com

10 votes

PySpark dataframe.foreach() with HappyBase connection pool returns 'TypeError: can't pickle thread.lock objects'

python apache-spark pyspark happybase asked Apr 6, 2016 at 15:28
stackoverflow.com

9 votes

Spring-Boot logging to Kafka: how to eliminate warning; best practices

logging spring-boot log4j apache-kafka asked Jan 29, 2017 at 20:43
stackoverflow.com

8 votes

how to create custom gauges with Spring Boot and Micrometer?

spring-boot prometheus micrometer asked Jul 29, 2019 at 20:17
stackoverflow.com

8 votes

dimensions not returned by AppNexus API

rest asked Jun 5, 2015 at 18:45
stackoverflow.com

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