Hadoop, Mapreduce, & Big Data | Sponsored by Quantcast, Atlassian, and Odiago
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For our first event in 2012 we are focusing on Hadoop and Big Data. Quantcast, Atlassian, and Odiago are sponsoring the event with venue, food, refreshments, and speakers. Hadoop has taken San Francisco and Silicon Valley by storm and we have assembled rock star speakers for the event.
Speakers
Silvius Rus
http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/9/a/d/a/event_81819642.jpegSilvius leads the Quantcast Cluster R&D Team and is going to present on Quantcast's Turbo Mapreduce (Or How to Run Sawzall on 1 Terabyte of Text in 7 Seconds)
Silvius was looking for wisdom on how to convince Java users to start programming in a new language. Quantcast had just ported Sawzall, a highly productive mapreduce language from Google, to run on a proprietary Mapreduce cluster based loosely on Hadoop. Even though Sawzall gives a clear productivity boost, old habits take extra convincing to change. The advice I got was “make it run in seconds rather than minutes and everyone will jump at it”.
More information regarding the topic of the talk is available below:
http://www.quantcast.com/inside-quantcast/2011/11/turbo-mapreduce/
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Sean McCormick
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Sean is a programmer and free thinker and leads Quantcast's Data Infrastructure & Web teams. Also, he has never worn an ascot.
Map-Reduce is dead simple, it's managing the data that's hard.
Sean will cover topics related to getting data into and out of the map-reduce framework, from various disparate types of sources and sinks.
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Garrett Wu
http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/7/b/e/event_85282462.jpegGarrett joined Odiago in 2010 and focuses on distributed infrastructure and algorithms. Previously he worked at Google in Mountain View, CA and New York City where he was the tech lead of the personalized recommendations team. Garrett’s areas of interest include natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining. He holds a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Linguistics from the University of Washington. Outside of Odiago, Garrett can often be found on a beach volleyball court.
Here is some information on WibiData: http://wibidata.com/
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Sponsors of our Hadoop Event
Atlassian is sponsoring the food and refreshments, Quantcast will provide the venue and two speakers, and Odiago will provide a speaker. Become Noticed is providing promotional, marketing and organizational support while Strategi is helping organize and promote the event along with organizational support roles.
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Quantcast
Quantcast has built powerful statistical technology to help you best understand and reach digital media audiences. Our tools enable the direct-measurement of traffic and audience characteristics, empowering both publishers and marketers to operate in a more connected and transparent way throughout strategy, buying, selling and evaluation phases of a campaign.
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Atlassian
We help innovators everywhere plan, build, and launch great software. Software is transforming the world – Atlassian is helping transform the teams building it.
More than 17,000 companies of all sizes use our issue tracking, collaboration, and software development products to work faster and smarter, together.
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Odiago
Odiago is a software company that engineers solutions for the large-scale data challenges that face today’s enterprises. We draw upon our experience at web-scale companies like Google to develop applications that help companies improve they way they manage, analyze, and learn from data about their customers, and how they interact with their products and services. Odiago's main product is called WibiData found at http://www.wibidata.com/ .
http://odiago.com/ (http://odiago.com/)
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Become Noticed
Become Noticed is a San Francisco SEO (http://www.becomenoticed.com/) Company that focuses on best practices and engaging the latest Web technologies to build strong Web strategies for clients developing Websites and Applications.
The Founder of Become Noticed Michael Latulippe (http://michaellatulippe.com/) is a software engineer and Web developer specializing in PHP, jQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, and HTML5 technologies.
Become Noticed, Inc. sponsors the BASE and Eclipse Group with financial, logistic, and promotional support.
http://www.becomenoticed.com (http://www.becomenoticed.com/)
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O'Reilly Media Book Giveaways
O'Reilly Media will provide book giveaways at the event on Hadoop, HBASE, and more. We ask that if you receive a book from O'Reilly Media at our event you write a review on the book.
Please send a copy of your book review to Marsee or Jon (usergroups@oreilly.com ). Include "Book Review" and the title of the book in your subject line of your email along with the name of our group Bay Area Software Engineers (BASE).
You can also send reviews to:
Marsee Henon and Jon JohnsO'Reilly Media1005 Gravenstein Highway NorthSebastopol, CA 95472
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Bay Area Software Engineers is Growing
Our group has grown by leaps and bounds this past year and we are proud to announce that Bay Area Software Engineers (BASE) is in the process of filing for a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit status in order to further grow and develop our ecosystem. We couldn't do it without our members and we want to thank you for being apart of this growing organization.
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