Spark, Big data and Analytics Meetup

Name: Spark, Big data and Analytics Meetup
Start: 2015-11-19T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-11-19T21:00:00-05:00
Location: WeWork

Hosted By

Jeffrey C.

Details

Please join us for networking and pizza at 6 PM followed by our discussion on Spark!

Presented by: Rich Tarro, Big Data Architect

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Spark is hot and is certainly generating a lot of buzz in the industry. Spark is fundamentally shifting the way data and analytics are exploited by organizations by putting analytics into action where and when it is needed. With Spark, algorithms and big data models can be developed and built quickly with faster iterations enabling intelligence to be embedded into applications for web, mobile, social, Internet of Things as well as business process applications – enabling analytics to take a key role in the way an organization operates and makes decisions.

In this session we will explore the technology behind Spark, how it enables such fast processing, its ease of use in writing applications, and how it can combine different types of analytics such as SQL and machine learning seamlessly in the same application. In addition, we will look at Spark in the context of IBM Bluemix, which not only offers an integrated experience for data scientists and analysts to perform interactive analytics with Spark, but also enables Spark applications to take advantage of the wide range of services available on Bluemix.

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