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Spark After Dark with Chris Fregly & IBM

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Spark After Dark with Chris Fregly & IBM

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We are happy to announce that Chris Fregly will be coming to Brussels after the Spark Summit in Amsterdam. Chris works currently as Principle Data Solutions Engineer at IBM's Spark Technology Center. He's the founder of the Advanced Spark Meetup in San Francisco, speaks at international conferences, author of the the soon to be released "Advanced Spark" book, a Spark Contributor at Databricks, ...

Don't miss this opportunity to see him live to talk about combining Spark Streaming, Kafka, Spark GraphX, SQL & DataFrames , MlLib.

The only available spot in his agenda makes us to shedule this meetup on a Friday evening.

Agenda:

• Chris Fregly (Databrics & IBM)

Real-time Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning with Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Zeppelin Notebook, Spark-Notebook, iPython Notebook, Docker, and a host of other open source, big data technologies.

The audience will participate in a live, interactive demo that generates high-quality recommendations using the latest Spark-Cassandra and Spark-ElasticSearch connectors for real time, approximate, and advanced analytics including machine learning, graph processing, and text processing. If you'd like to follow along during the demo, please see the following links:

Code: https://github.com/fluxcapacitor/pipeline/

Wiki: https://github.com/fluxcapacitor/pipeline/wiki

• Willem Hendriks (IBM)

Short overview of IBM's investments into Spark

Feel good use case "where to have dinner tonight with Spark"

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/06/15/ibm-bets-big-on-spark-calling-it-the-linux-of-big-data-analytics/

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