Tableau and Structured Streaming in Spark

This time we will have two talks:

Hands-on demo on Tableau

Michael Platzer will give a hands-on demo on Tableau. He introduced Tableau as a self-service data analysis and visualization platform to Nokia in 2011, and delivered since then with his team of data scientists from ad-hoc analytical reports to interactive web-based dashboards a wide variety of analytical solutions on top of Tableau. Later, he repeated similar for Microsoft, but on top of their BI stack.

Disclaimer: Michael is not a sales rep of Tableau, but still to this date, can get very excited about its possibilities. But please also note the price tag of 2'000 USD per desktop license!

For following the session you can bring your own laptop, and have either the 14day free trial license installed, or the free version Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/ .

Continuous Applications: Structured Streaming in Spark

There is a rise of streaming applications recently. Spark's focus is on creating a streaming solution, which is easy to use, provides delivery guarantees and which you can control by querying an ever-growing table of incoming structured data, just like how you would query any SQL database. After this talk, you will understand the motivations of Structured Streaming, Spark's take on modern streaming architecture, and see a live demo of it.

Bio: Zoltan is a Senior Spark Instructor at Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Spark. Earlier he built Prezi.com's data infrastructure and managed the team that scaled it crunching over a 1 Petabyte of data. He architects Big Data architectures and regularly gives Big Data and Spark training globally. You can see his profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanctoth

Schedule:

18:45 - Get together with a few drinks

19:00 - "Continuous Applications: Structured Streaming in Spark" (Zoltan Toth)

19:45 - "Hands-on demo on Tableau" (Michael Platzer)

20:30 - "Stuff we recently found and we think is really cool" (The Organizers)

20:40 - Food, more drinks & chatting.

Looking forward to see you at the Novomatic Forum!

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This event is sponsored by NOVOMATIC

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NOVOMATIC is the leading provider of gaming technology and casino equipment in Europe. As such we are constantly applying cutting edge technologies to develop the most innovative solutions in the industry. Sponsoring the Modern Data Science Tools Meetup is part of our effort to contribute to the creation of a strong Data Science and Machine Learning community in and around Vienna.