ChiPy Data Science SIG: February 2017

We're excited to host and sponsor the upcoming ChiPy (https://www.meetup.com/ChiPy/events/237455909/) Meetup and we invite our members to attend!

This is ChiPy SIG's first meeting of the year. Doors will open at 6 pm and talks will begin at 6:30. Food and drinks will be provided.

TALKS:

• Peter Hirschboeck A beginner's encounter with distributed computing: the need and the adventure of getting billions of function calls and results processed

• Trevor Grant Absurdly Large OLS with Apache Mahout:

Ever wish you had a bit more horsepower to run your favorite distributed algorithm but don’t quite have the cash for a Hadoop cluster? Hadoop-as-a-service might be right up your use-case alley then. This talk will show how to get up and running with IBM’s BlueMix using a handful of Python scripts to do the heavy lifting of getting Apache Zeppelin and Mahout installed and configured. Once set up the fun begins, with a demonstration of running a Mahout OLS (ordinary least squares) algorithm on a massive (100 million rows x 100 features) data set.

Thanks to Metis for hosting us and sponsoring this event!

Hope to see you all there!