Interactive Data Analytics with Flink and Zeppelin

UPDATE: Unfortunately, Trevor's flight to the DC area has been cancelled, and we can not get him onsite in time for the Meetup. Trevor will be presenting to the room remotely via WebEx. Please join us as scheduled for Pizza and networking before the presentation.

WebEx Info

You can join by accessing http://walmart.webex.com (http://walmart.webex.com/) or using the Webex mobile app in the Google Play or Apple Store

Meeting Number: 747 590 053 Meeting Password: 1234

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Please join us for an exciting evening to learn more about Apache Zeppelin from Trevor Grant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-grant-a996a127), Research and Development Data Scientist at Market6

Sponsor: Walmart Technology

Schedule:
• 6:00 pm - 6.30 pm Pizza & Networking

• 6:30 pm - 6:35 pm Welcome - Rich Newcomb

• 6:35 pm - 6:40 pm Community Announcements and Updates - Suneel Marthi

• 6:40 pm - 7.30 pm Talk: Interactive Data Analytics with Flink and Zeppelin - Trevor Grant

Talk description: Apache Flink is the coolest new thing in Big Data Analytics, but an interactive shell in a terminal window is not the best tool a Data Scientist would want to harness the full potential of Analytics.

Enter Apache Zeppelin. Zeppelin which graduated on May 25th 2016 from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), 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.

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 a competitive edge over 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.

In his latest Avatar, Trevor is a an Apache committer on Apache Mahout Machine Learning project focused on Online Learning algorithms.

Trevor is based out of Chicago, Illinois and is a co-organizer of the Chicago Apache Flink Meetup.