This document summarizes a presentation on using matrix methods with Hadoop. It discusses how SQL queries, word counting, and recommender systems can be viewed as matrix computations. Matrix operations like multiplication and summation are used in MapReduce jobs to perform tasks like averaging ratings in a database and counting word frequencies in documents. Social network information can also be incorporated into recommender systems by combining user rating and friendship matrices. A variety of tools for implementing matrix computations in Hadoop are mentioned, including Hadoop streaming, Dumbo, MrJob and Hadoopy.