Crunching through big data with MBrace, Azure and F# - Mathias Brandewinder
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For data exploration and rapid prototyping, the productivity of an interactive scripting environment is hard to beat: simply grab data, run code, and iterate based on immediate feedback. However, that story starts to break down when the data you have to process is big, or the computations expensive. Your local machine becomes the bottleneck, and you are left with a slow and unresponsive environment.
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In this talk, we will introduce mbrace.io (http://mbrace.io/), an open-source and free engine for scalable cloud programming. Using the MBrace programming model, you can keep working in your beloved familiar scripting environment, and easily execute C# or F# code on a cluster of machines on Azure.
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We will focus primarily on live demos, from provisioning an Azure cluster, to analyzing large datasets in a distributed fashion; in particular, we will discuss how this setup is relevant to data science and machine learning.
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Also attend:
Mathias is presenting an interactive coding workshop on the previous day:
A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning with F#
Tue Apr 19 6:30 PM
Prolucid Technologies 190 Robert Speck Pkwy, L4Z 3K3,, Mississauga, ON
About Mathias:
Mathias Brandewinder has been developing software for about 10 years, and loving every minute of it, except maybe for a few release days. His language of choice was C#, until he discovered F# and fell in love with it. He enjoys arguing about code and how to make it better, and gets very excited when discussing TDD or functional programming. His other professional interests include machine learning and applied math. Mathias is a Microsoft F# MVP, author of "Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers (http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Projects-NET-Developers/dp/1430267674)" (Apress), and the founder of Clear Lines Consulting. He is based in San Francisco, blogs at www.brandewinder.com (http://www.brandewinder.com/), and can be found on Twitter as @brandewinder (https://twitter.com/brandewinder).
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About our sponsor:
We gratefully acknowledge prolucid for generously sponsoring this site, accommodation for speakers & other expenses.
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