Sep 11: Igniting Data Analysis with Apache Spark by Ryan Gimmy

Title: Igniting Data Analysis with Apache Spark by Ryan Gimmy

When: Sep 11, 6 - 9 PM (Presentation begins at 7 PM)

Getting In: Attendees need to enter from the street lobby on Democracy and Appian will have people down there to usher them up to the 9th floor. The building is the College Board building, across from the World of Beers. There is a Fidelity Investments office on the bottom floor. Please bring an ID. If you have trouble, please call Gray at 703 727-1307.

Food: We'll have pizza and sodas. Afterwards we will go over to the World of Beers.

Sponsor: Thank you Appian for hosting this meetup for us.

Plug: The NationJS JavaScript Conference is coming up on Nov 7-8. See http://nationjs.com for details. Registration will open very soon.

Description: Apache Spark is a new framework for large-scale data processing. It employs an in-memory approach to deliver results up to 100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce. Spark can perform MapReduce-style processing, as well as streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning. In this talk, you'll learn the basics of Spark and how to write incredibly fast, distributed programs using it.

Speaker: Ryan Gimmy is an experienced software engineer at Altamira Technology Corporation who works on big data solutions that include Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Accumulo, ZooKeeper, Apache Blur, and Impala.

When he is at home, he develops mobile apps and robotic systems. He is Cloudera developer certified, and he loves the Bash scripting language because it is cryptic enough to always be interesting.