Big Data 101: Introduction to Hadoop File System as storage for Big Data.

Our speaker: Nick Choy
Speaker friendly bio: Canadian by birth, Nick moved to Singapore for the love of his life, bringing along his 5-year experience as a big data platform practitioner, consultant for the big 4s. He's joining us upon seeing our passion and enthusiasm, sharing his valuable understanding of HDFS and its eco-system.

Agenda: TBD, tutorial challenge level to be based on survey results. Survey to be sent soon, together with introduction of the organizers!
Tentatively,
7.00pm-7.30pm: Reception opens, networking
7.30pm-8.00pm: Introduction to Hadoop File System
8.00pm-8.30pm: Hands-on workshop on Hadoop Installation and some eco-system components such as Hive, Pig, and so on.
8.30pm-9.00pm: Hands-on workshop - Ingesting and Preparing Data using tools such as: Sqoop, Flume, and so on.
9.00pm-9.30pm: Recaps of learning. Q&As

Bring your laptop if you want to follow the hands-on tutorials! Our 8 organizers will be on site, helping you out as well. Please free to raise your hands to signal to any of us!

Register information: Due to Google's privacy policy, we will contact you separately for your full name.