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Setting up a Home Server with Raspberry Pi

Downloading and Installing Wheezy Raspbian

Download the latest wheezy raspbian raw image and install onto a 4GB+ SD card following the RPi Easy SD Card Setup instructions.

Server Setup

1. Insert the SD Card. Attach a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to your Raspberry Pi before booting it up.
2. The Raspberry Pi has a nice "raspi-config" screen that you'll see on first boot. For a home server, the following selections will be useful:

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Getting started with Elasticsearch

Install Oracle Java SDK (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

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Bubble chart indicating the education index (y-axis), median age (x-axis), and GDP (circle size) of 175 countries.

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Creating an Angular D3 Directive with elasticsearch.angular.js

elasticsearch.js

requirements:

1. Elasticsearch 1.0
2. elasticsearch.angular.js

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Setting up a D3 Directive using Angular and Elasticsearch

Here, we create a donut-chart directive using:

1. Yeoman: for scaffolding our app (including Bower and Grunt)
2. Angular: as our MV* framework
3. D3: as our charting library
4. Elasticsearch: as our backend data store
5. Elasticsearch Javascript Client: to communicate with our Elasticsearch instance
6. NFL dataset: our test dataset

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Data Visualization with Elasticsearch Aggregations and D3

Link to the Elasticsearch Blog.