Data Analytics Infrastructure

During this meetup, we'll let anyone who is interested speak for 5-15 minutes about the research processes, data manipulation tools, or machine learning systems you use in your own day-to-day work.

The focus of the talks will be on how different elements like those above can fit together to create end-to-end data systems in the context of a larger business / research initiative -- they should not be step-by-step tutorials on to actually use these things (this will happen in later sessions where we'll have the time to actually do that well).

Agenda so far:

Jeff Carey - Data Architecture @ BoomTown (http://boomtownroi.com/)

Ed Galligan - Data Architecture @ Benefitfocus (https://www.benefitfocus.com/)

Ben Podgursky (tentative) - Data Architecture @ LiveRamp (http://liveramp.com/)

Ghadi Shayban - Infrastructure and Data Architecture @ PokitDok (https://pokitdok.com/about)

Eric Czech (if need be) - Data Architecture @ Next Big Sound (http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/28/how-next-big-sound-tracks-over-a-trillion-song-plays-likes-a.html)

Free pizza and beer to be provided by PokitDok!

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Btw, the Iron Yard office is on Princess St. and the best place to park is the parking garage next door with an entrance on market st. Here's a map showing both (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/17+Princess+St,+Charleston,+SC+29401/32.7804339,-79.9346445/@32.7802112,-79.9342204,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x88fe7a13d89a0be5:0xee0326c5b3c6f483!2m2!1d-79.934197!2d32.77994!1m0!3e2?hl=en). And here's a street view of the office entrance (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.780017,-79.934208,3a,75y,242.81h,66.76t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHAqF8vyk6UqW7NOoJgk_9A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) (the office entrance is on the left and the parking garage is the white building on the right) in case you have trouble finding where to get in.