#OCBigData Meetup #23

5:45 - 6:45
Socialize over food and adult beverages

6:45 - 7:30: Ask the Expert: Data Science Workbench, Cloudera

7:30-8:15: Do You Still Know someone Using Excel, Paxata

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Ask the Expert: Data Science Workbench
Mike Harding, Sr. Sales Engineer, Cloudera

Data Science and machine learning are unlocking new value in our data. A quickly evolving ecosystem of powerful open-source tools coupled with big data systems like Apache Hadoop can drive better model accuracy and deliver more strategic analytic capabilities. However today, most data science teams work away from the Hadoop cluster, often on their laptops or in data silos. This limits the data that can be used in data science research and creates operational overhead and gaps in security.
In this talk, we will provide background and a demo of the Data Science Workbench. We'll introduce an enterprise data science platform that accelerates analytics projects from exploration to production. Mike will explore why collaborative, customizable, self-service access is critical for data scientists to secure Hadoop environments via Python, R, and Scala.

Ask the Expert: Do You Still Know Someone Using Excel?
Ken Oakley, Sr. Sales Engineer, Paxata
One of the biggest challenges with large amounts of data is getting it ready for analytics and decision making. The most time consuming part of every analytic exercise continues to be in combining, cleaning, and shaping varied data sets into actionable information worthy of being analyzed. Ken will demonstrate how to make it easier and faster to prepare data for analytics in a visual, intuitive data preparation platform that provides collaboration and security. Ken has an extensive background in big data, previously managing information delivery at Netflix, eBay and Visa