Spark Meetup Auckland May 2016

This Spark meetup will be co-hosted with following Sponsors:

Hosting Sponsor: MapR Technologies

Venue Sponsor: KPMG

We will have a talk from Quentin Gabriel Thurier from Qrious on his journey and lessons learned with Spark.

We will have also have a talk from Adrian with live Demo from MapR Technologies.

Our speakers:

Quentin-Gabriel Thurier

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"As a Data Scientist at Qrious my role is to provide geospatial analytics insights for Transport and Tourism industries. In my previous positions I used to apply data science techniques for digital marketing optimization and investment banking fraud detection."

Adrian Smoiski

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"In my role as a veteran Solution Architect, I have been fortunate to work with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Business stakeholders and my clients to transform requirements designed by Analysts into Data Platform solutions. These then get delivered by developers, engineers and scientists allowing me to learn even more about the reality of my designed solutions. In my free time I am enjoying spending time with my family and my little boy.

I will be talking about Spark on the MapR Converged Data Platform. An introduction to the converged data platform, SQL-on-Hadoop and Streams. The demo will be a walk through of Spark on MapR using Zeppellin with an example of some music industry data."