Join us for the kick-off meeting at Society of Work - @SocietyofWork

The session will be divided into a presentation and a hacking session.

Our presenter will be Josh Patterson. He will give us an introduction to Hadoop and the world of Big Data.

The hacking session will be to install a pseudo-distributed VM for Hadoop on your BYOL (bring-your-own-laptop).

Josh Patterson Bio:

Distributed systems, Deep Learning, data mining, ML, that sort of thing; Previous lives: hadoop + smartgrid, PSA at Cloudera. Today: ML / Hadoop Consultant

Follow him: @jpatanooga (http://twitter.com/jpatanooga)

More info on the CHadoop github repo:

https://github.com/CHadoop/kickoff

Follow us on twitter: @CHadoopers

http://www.twitter.com/CHadoopers