Spark ETL and Canon for NLP

Get ready for another scintillating evening of presentations on Data Science.

The Dos and Don'ts of Spark ETL
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Apache Spark is a fantastic framework for large-scale data processing. It can be used to transform and prepare structured data quickly and efficiently. However, it's not a drop-in replacement for traditional RDBMS. Learn concepts, tips, tricks, and pitfalls of using Apache Spark for your data processing needs.

Speaker: Ilia Fishbein is Director of Software Engineering at HealthVerity, managing the Logistics team. His background is parallel computing, map-reduce, and distributed data processing. Ilia and his team routinely transform 100s of GBs of healthcare data.

Canon for NLP
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Canon is a datastore for natural language documents which at the moment supports sentence segmentation, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, and soon, dependency parsing. It comes with an extensible scraper which does machine learning engineering on text streams in flight. It can be deployed at the press of a button.

Speaker: Alex Tecce is a Data Architect at MachineQ working on the storage and insight of time series data from a range of IoT devices. He also has an interest in NLP both academically and industrially, and will be showing his pet project, Canon.

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