Open Analytics Boston - short talks & demos

Hi All, this will be the 2016 kick-off "Open Analytics" meetup. I'm scheduling these to occur at least once a month.

Please submit your presentation or idea for a presentation, talk, demo that fits under the broad heading of "Open Analytics"

The envisioned format will be:

6:30-7:00 - Sign-in, Networking, pizza & beer

7:00 - 7:10 - Message from our sponsors

7:10 - 8:45 - 2-3 talks of about 25-45 minutes long with Q&A

8:45-9:00 - Thanks and ideas for next month's meetup

To use the Teradata space everyone will need to sign a form from the Security department.

January 2016 Speaker Agenda:

Anindita Mahapatra

Building Realtime Analytics Pipeline with Spark and Kafka and using familiar sql-based queries to uncover insights from devices, applications and infrastructure data leveraging Jupyter web interface.

Tom Morris - Pending

"Data cleanup, transformation, and exploratory analysis - a hands-on introduction" with a peak at the new OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/) 2.6 features. OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Douglas Moore - Backup

"Big Data 101 for Data Scientists" - Highlight Hadoop capabilities as related to the role of a data scientist. The talk will expand the awareness of the tools and when to select Hadoop and Big Data vs. more traditional approaches.