I would like to know what various folks in the community think about tool/language choices for a small team (3-5) developers working build simple data driven applications. We want to do data munging/Analysis/Datavis.
We will likely ultimately have Hadoop on the data crunching end and will have javascript on the front end. Ideally we want some level of R integration too.
My best thought at the moment is Django, Python, using R with Rpy (http://rpy.sourceforge.net/) and Boto (http://code.google.com/p/boto/).
Are there other good alternatives? Would there be any significant down/up sides to trying to go a JVM route instead? What tools would you use and why?
Instead of JVM you could check rApache and rserve also. Well, I have no idea though what extra would you get instead of using Rpy.