Big Data Brighton

Big Data presentations, discussions, hack events and taught sessions in Brighton.

Open to everyone across interests, specialisms and skill levels - join if you're intrested in learning more about Big Data or sharing your knowledge with the community.

 

Some topics we might cover

  • What is Big Data?

What is big data exactly? 
What new things does big data make possible, and who are they useful to? 
Who's buying it - what's the business case?

 

  • Data Science

What is a data scientist? 
Stats 101 for developers (and development 101 for statisticians) 
Statistical computing with R, numpy and octave

 

  • Audience Insight

How is big data revolutionising the web? 
Haw can brands use big data to better understand their audience?
Business case studies of how they are using big data

  • NoSQL/MapReduce

An overview of NoSQL databases

Map reduce 101

Hadoop, Storm and the Lambda architecture 
Using Amazon's elastic map reduce

 

If you'd like to see any sessions in particular or present something, please let me know.

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    "I work for a java developer conference"
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    jason bailey jason bailey commented on Big Data Week
    April 29
    jason bailey

    "Hi Alan Yes you could use Fourier techniques to fit to data but prediction might be going too far without input...."

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    April 27
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    "Anyone interested in how big data & machine learning is applied to Quantitative Finance?..."

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    jason bailey jason bailey commented on Big Data Week
    April 26
    jason bailey

    "Hello Some of the stuff was hidden in my slides, sorry. I've put them up at: http://www.jasonbailey.net/stuff/big-data-brighton-fourier-transforms/ I've also included the Matlab code (m files/scripts) that I used...."

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    Peter Passaro Peter Passaro commented on Big Data Week
    April 26
    Peter Passaro

    "Good mix of high level and tech talks, and great group of people. I'd like to see a few more practical talks on getting started with new technologies in future."

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    Peter Passaro Peter Passaro wrote a group review
    April 26
    Peter Passaro
    "Excellent mix of people, good knowledge base."
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    Apr 25
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