Agenda:
6pm - 6:45pm: Networking
6:45 - 8pm: Intro and presentations
8pm - 9pm: Networking
Presenters:
Scott Cohen | CEO | Dropfire
Presentation Topic: Discussion about Semantic and Structural Conflicts of Data
Craig Vitter | Product Evangelist | IKANOW
Presentation Topic: Intro to Hadoop MapReduce - I'm Sold. Now What?
Puneet Batra | Chief Data Scientist | Kyruus
Presentation Topic: Just What the Doctor Ordered: Using Hadoop to Handle Healthcare Data
Food & drinks will be provided
As someone who studied physics, I thought the analogy about moving analysis from the time domain to the frequency domain to make it tractable was an intriguing idea; applying this to data means to move the discussion to the metadata level where operations and transformations may be easier to conceptualize.
March 25
"Unstructured data is really unmodeled data" -Dropfire
Thank you to all the presenters.
March 24
Thanks again for everyone who came out last night, especially Greg and Puneet for agreeing to speak and to those in the audience who asked great questions. I am posting the slides from the presentations in the files section of the group (found in the More -> Files menu at the top).
If you have ideas for the next Meetup or are interested in presenting please drop a line.
March 21
Useful information from each of the presentors, with a long, engaging Q&A session with the audience.
March 20
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