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 exactly?
What new things does big data make possible, and who are they useful to?
Who's buying it - what's the business case?
What is a data scientist?
Stats 101 for developers (and development 101 for statisticians)
Statistical computing with R, numpy and octave
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
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.