+1

I hope Bigtop DG would help all over the Bigtop infra -- blueprints,
smokes, benchmarks and etc.

Thanks,
Youngwoo

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:53 AM, RJ Nowling <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi BigTop,
>
> I had a discussion with Jay yesterday, we'd like to propose a new component
> for BigTop: BigTop Data Generators.
>
> BigTop Data Generators would consist of a common set of libraries for
> building data generators and three example data generators:
>
>     * BigPetStore transaction generator (moved from BigPetStore)
>     * BigTop Bazaar -- attendee movement and interactions with booths on a
> showroom floor, at a conference, or at a mall
>     * BigTop Weatherman -- stochastic weather simulation (temperature, wind
> speed, wind chill, rainfall, etc.) per zip code.  (From a model trained on
> NOAA historical weather data)
>
> We believe that creating a common set of libraries will have several
> benefits including:
>
>      * Easier for others to build their own data generators
>      * Make data generators smaller and easier to maintain
>      * Share improvements across the data generators
>
> More details on the libraries are below.
>
> BigPetStore will be continue to focus on building  and maintaining
> blueprints, powered by the BigTop Data Generators.
>
> Our vision is that we get all of Apache coming to BigTop for tools for
> building better, more comprehensive blueprints.  We want to support these
> efforts through data generators and the initial set of blueprint we've been
> building.
>
> If the community is generally in support of this, I can create a top-level
> "bigtop-data-generators" directory and put the data generators and
> libraries in there.
>
> Thanks!
>
> RJ
>
>
> -------
> Library details:
>
> So far, I've extracted the following common libraries:
>
>      * Samplers -- provides classes for PDFs and various samplers
>      * Name generator -- data set and samplers for generating names
>      * Location data set -- data set and classes for US zip codes, their
> GPS coordinates, median house hold incomes, and population sizes
>      * Product generator -- library for enumerating products from a
> specification file.  Comes with default specifications for BigPetStore
>
> I also expect that I'll add libraries for:
>
>       * Particle simulation -- customer movement in a room
>       * Latent factor model generation -- generate latent factors and
> customer weights to create something like MovieLens data.  Used in Bazaar
> for booth preferences and potentially in BigPetStore for customer item
> preferences
>
> Most of these libraries came out of the BigPetStore data generator but the
> other generators have been refactored to be based off the standard set of
> libraries.
>

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