Interesting trends on keyword searches (Hadoop versus other keywords) and number of posts in a major Hadoop mailing list. You will also find three seminal papers by Google, in 2006 before Hadoop became well known. I added numerous applications where Hadoop-style environments could prove useful, in a comment below the article. Here are my first five suggestions: - fraud detection (credit card fraud in real time) - designing customized drugs based on patient feedback (the data does not even exist yet) - local, long-term weather forecasts (they use graph databases more so than Hadoop) - signal processing (astronony, sensor data, highway traffic monitoring and traffic alerts, automated piloting, air and water pollution/quality) - high frequency trading Read full article at http://bit.ly/1hLVZZ8 You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.