March 2015 MTP - Big Data

Important notes:

1. The event is free and open to all technology enthusiasts. Ours is a community run meetup.

2. We are still getting more speakers and will update the event details accordingly as and when we get confirmations. Watch this space

3. Its mandatory for all those who are attending to get the tickets[https://mar2015mtp.eventbrite.com] for the sessions they intend to attend.[Soft copy is preferrable...a QR code + 2 barcode will be generated for you when you buy a ticket]

4. DO NOT RSVP and issue tickets if you are not sure of attending. If you RSVP, get tickets issued and do NOT attend, you go into our blacklist which will be to your disadvantage for ALL our future meetups

5. There is a lunch break but we do not provide lunch. Why? See point 1 :-)

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Time : 11.00 am - 12.00 pm

Title : Javascript framework for BigData (PykQuery.js).

Speaker: Ritvvij Parrikh

Bio: He runs Pykih, a data design company in Mumbai. Previous Avatars: (desc. order) Social Entrepreneur (TracksGiving.com (http://tracksgiving.com/)). Product Manager (Samhita.org (http://samhita.org/)). Sold software to AT&T (Amdocs US). Java Developer (Amdocs India). He also helps run the Mumbai Chapter of DataMeet. His latest fun project was PykCharts.com (http://pykcharts.com/). When not working, he spends his time reading about History or Hindu philosophy.

Target Audiences: Front-End Developers, Data Analysts.

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Time : 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm

Title : Big Data and IoT

Speaker: Anand George

Bio: Engineer by training, IOT evangelist by vocation. He works at MachinePulse, building Erixis, a platform for the Internet of Things.He started his career as an Instrumentation Engineer, switched to software development and adopted IOT and his area of work. He finds IOT as a culmination of his areas of expertise; devices, software, big data and the cloud

He's also the organizer for the Internet of Everything meetup group in Mumbai https://www.meetup.com/Internet_of_Everything/ ;

Target Audiences: Basic to intermediate knowledge of IOT.

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Time 1.00 - 2.00 pm

LUNCH Break

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Time : 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm

Title: How to get started with R

Speaker: Alok Shende

Bio: Alok is the Chief Executive & Principal Analyst of Ascentius, a marketing analytics company. Before leading the start-up, Alok worked with Frost & Sullivan as a Vice President and as Director – Consulting with Ovum.

To proactively enable a wider adoption of R software, Alok founded Mumbai R User group https://www.meetup.com/mumbai-r-user-group/

Alok holds a PGDM from IIM – Calcutta and BE in Electronics & Communications from NIT – Durgapur

Target Audience: Intermediate knowledge of Python

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PYTHON

Time : 3.00 pm - 4.00 pm

Title : SciPy in exploring data

Speaker: Chinmay Kanchi

Bio: He is a former freelance data scientist who is now working in Pune as a developer and lead data scientist at iDataLabs, a US based startup.

Target Audience: Intermediate knowledge of Python

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Time : 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Title: Iterators in Python 3

Speaker: Anand Chitipothu via Hangout

Bio: He is an open source and open data entusiast. .He is a well know pythonista and a maintainer of web.py framework

He has spoken at PyCon, local meetups and on myriad platforms. He is also an excellent python trainer.

Target Audience: Beginner knowledge of Python

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