Interactive Data Analytics with Flink and Zeppelin

Please join us for another exciting evening to learn more about Interactive Data Analytics with Flink and Zeppelin from Trevor Grant, co-organizer of the Chicago Apache Flink meetup and Data Scientist at Market6.

Schedule:
• 5:30 pm-6.00pm (Pizza & Networking)

• 6:00 pm-7.00pm Interactive Data Analytics with Flink and Zeppelin

Talk: Flink is the coolest new thing in Big Data Analytics, but an interactive shell based in a terminal window, yuck; submitting compiled programs via the command line? The horror!

Enter Apache Zeppelin. An incubating project with lots of promise, Zeppelin is a web-based interpreter for all of your favorite Big Data tools, bringing that iPython feel that we all love with the high-octane power of Flink under the hood.

In this talk we'll show step by step how to setup a Flink stand-alone cluster, and connect Apache Zeppelin to it, then we'll run a few simple example to showcase just how not-scary Flink can be!

Bio: Trevor Grant - Research and Development Data Scientist at Market6.
Trevor has an insatiable intellectual curiosity. He wrote award winning research on economic theory of conflict while serving as a combat medic in the tumultuous Zhari district of Kandahar Afghanistan. Upon his return, he conducted extensive research and lectures in hidden Markov Models, genetic algorithms, and neural networks while earning his Master's of Applied Mathematics and authoring an R package which optimizes parameters and topology of multi-level neural networks using genetic algorithms. After graduation, Trevor joined Mindshare where he developed several insight-generation products to inform real-time business decisions, drive results, and give clients competitive over their competition.

Trevor has led the Research and Development Lab at Market6, where he has spearheaded and oversaw several projects including developing non-traditional data sources, integrating first and third party data, adding depth and dimension to aid clients' visibility of the business landscape, feasibility studies of emerging technologies such as Apache Spark, and the development of an automated machine learning pipeline for quickly estimating the business value of new data sources.

Sponsor: Capital One