diff --git a/dataset/pom.xml b/dataset/pom.xml
index f884a00..4abe2e9 100644
--- a/dataset/pom.xml
+++ b/dataset/pom.xml
@@ -64,6 +64,26 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+        <artifactId>avro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+            <execution>
+              <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+              <goals>
+                <goal>schema</goal>
+              </goals>
+              <configuration>
+                <stringType>Utf8</stringType>
+                <createSetters>false</createSetters>
+                <fieldVisibility>private</fieldVisibility>
+                <imports>
+                  <import>src/main/avro/standard_event.avsc</import>
+                </imports>
+              </configuration>
+            </execution>
+          </executions>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/dataset/src/main/avro/standard_event.avsc b/dataset/src/main/avro/standard_event.avsc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a059939
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataset/src/main/avro/standard_event.avsc
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  "name": "StandardEvent",
+  "namespace": "org.kitesdk.data.event",
+  "type": "record",
+  "doc": "A standard event type for logging, based on the paper 'The Unified Logging Infrastructure for Data Analytics at Twitter' by Lee et al, http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1771_georgelee_vldb2012.pdf",
+  "fields": [
+    {
+      "name": "event_initiator",
+      "type": "string",
+      "doc": "Where the event was triggered from in the format {client,server}_{user,app}, e.g. 'client_user'. Required."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "event_name",
+      "type": "string",
+      "doc": "A hierarchical name for the event, with parts separated by ':'. Required."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "user_id",
+      "type": "long",
+      "doc": "A unique identifier for the user. Required."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "session_id",
+      "type": "string",
+      "doc": "A unique identifier for the session. Required."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "ip",
+      "type": "string",
+      "doc": "The IP address of the host where the event originated. Required."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "timestamp",
+      "type": "long",
+      "doc": "The point in time when the event occurred, represented as the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT. Required."
+    }
+      
+  ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dataset/src/main/java/org/kitesdk/examples/data/GenerateEvents.java b/dataset/src/main/java/org/kitesdk/examples/data/GenerateEvents.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6725c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dataset/src/main/java/org/kitesdk/examples/data/GenerateEvents.java
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 Cloudera, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.kitesdk.examples.data;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Random;
+import java.util.UUID;
+import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.Tool;
+import org.kitesdk.data.DatasetDescriptor;
+import org.kitesdk.data.DatasetWriter;
+import org.kitesdk.data.Datasets;
+import org.kitesdk.data.View;
+import org.kitesdk.data.event.StandardEvent;
+
+public class GenerateEvents extends Configured implements Tool {
+  protected Random random;
+  protected long baseTimestamp;
+
+  public GenerateEvents() {
+    random = new Random();
+  }
+  @Override
+  public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
+    long counter = 0l;
+    baseTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();  
+
+    View<StandardEvent> events = Datasets.load(
+        (args.length==1 ? args[0] : "dataset:hive:events"), StandardEvent.class);
+
+    DatasetWriter<StandardEvent> writer = events.newWriter();
+    try {
+      Utf8 sessionId = new Utf8("sessionId");
+      long userId = 0;
+      Utf8 ip = new Utf8("ip");
+      int randomEventCount = 0;
+
+      while (System.currentTimeMillis() - baseTimestamp < 36000) {
+          sessionId = randomSessionId();
+          userId = randomUserId();
+          ip = randomIp();
+          randomEventCount = random.nextInt(25);
+          for (int i=0; i < randomEventCount; i++) {
+            writer.write(generateRandomEvent(sessionId, userId, ip, counter++));
+          }
+      }
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
+    }
+
+    System.out.println("Generated " + counter + " events");
+
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  public StandardEvent generateRandomEvent(Utf8 sessionId, long userId, Utf8 ip, long counter) {
+    return StandardEvent.newBuilder()
+        .setEventInitiator(new Utf8("client_user"))
+        .setEventName(randomEventName(counter))
+        .setUserId(userId)
+        .setSessionId(sessionId)
+        .setIp(ip)
+        .setTimestamp(randomTimestamp())
+        .build();
+  }
+
+  public Utf8 randomEventName(long counter) {
+    return new Utf8("event"+counter);
+  }
+
+  public long randomUserId() {
+    return random.nextInt(10);
+  }
+
+  public Utf8 randomSessionId() {
+    return new Utf8(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
+  }
+
+  public Utf8 randomIp() {
+    return new Utf8("192.168." + (random.nextInt(254) + 1) + "."
+        + (random.nextInt(254) + 1));
+  }
+
+  public long randomTimestamp() {
+    long delta = System.currentTimeMillis() - baseTimestamp;
+    delta = delta*1000l+random.nextInt(5000);
+    return baseTimestamp+delta;
+  }
+
+  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
+    int rc = ToolRunner.run(new Configuration(), new GenerateEvents(), args);
+
+    System.exit(rc);
+  }
+
+}