Data Science in the Enterprise by Amr Awadallah, CTO Cloudera

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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, Amr will provide background and a demo of the Data Science Workbench. He'll introduce an enterprise data science platform that accelerates analytics projects from exploration to production. Amr will explore why collaborative, customizable, self-service access is critical for data scientists to secure Hadoop environments via Python, R, and Scala.

About the speaker:

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Amr Awadallah (https://www.linkedin.com/in/awadallah/), CTO, Cloudera

Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr (@awadallah) was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners.

Prior to joining Accel he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July of 2000.

Amr holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Agenda:
6:00 - 6:30 Registration and Networking
6:30 - 6:45 Introduction by The Hive
6:45 - 7:45 Talk by Amr Awadallah
7:45 - 8:00 Q&A