Database Seminar for June 18, 2015 - Data Science

Our Speaker will be John Favata, Associate Professor in the Computer Information Systems department at Buffalo State College. See http://cis.buffalostate.edu/faculty/john-favata if you are interested.

Recently John has been working on the development of a curriculum for a possible MS in Data Science. The talk will cover what data science is and why we need it as well as a review of the tools and techniques.

Room 113A is the first room on your left as you enter Davis Hall from White Road. Davis Hall is on White Road near the bookstore. Parking is available in the Jarvis Lot across the Road. No permit is required after 3:00 PM.

We'll continue with light refreshments as we've been doing. Let's set 7:00 as the meet and get settled time with the talk starting at 7:15.

Our current sponsor is Stark and Wayne. Stark & Wayne LLC is a US-based consultancy that specializes in Cloud Foundry & BOSH. They are a founding Silver member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation and are widely recognized as the leading consultancy, community contributors, and educators for both Cloud Foundry & BOSH.

Stark & Wayne works on open source projects to make it easier for companies and their staff to discover Cloud Foundry, onboard it into their organization, and have success with it. They are also the creators and maintainers of popular open source projects bosh-bootstrap (http://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh-bootstrap), bosh-gen (http://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bosh-gen), bosh-workspace (https://github.com/rkoster/bosh-workspace), community-shared-boshreleases (http://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/community-shared-boshreleases) and the staticfile-buildpack (https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/staticfile-buildpack/) which was recently promoted into the Cloud Foundry Incubator program for consideration as a first-class Cloud Foundry code base. We created the end-to-end tool chain https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/terraform-aws-cf-install for booting up Cloud Foundry into a new AWS VPC.

Please rsvp (https://www.meetup.com/buffalolab/events/222025806/) so I know how many are coming. Doing this helps me a lot.