Self-Service Data Exploration and Analytics on Hadoop with Apache Drill

Hello East Bay Biggies,

Our presentation for the month of September is scheduled for September 30.

Jim Bates, Senior Systems Engineer from MAPR will enlighten us on

Self-Service Data Exploration and Analytics on Hadoop with Apache Drill

Apache Drill provides a familiar ANSI SQL interface to explore big data on your own without having to create any centralized schema. This session will walk through how Drill integrates Big Data today through an overview of several different use cases that enterprises are testing Drill for.

Jim brings over 14 years of experience in systems and support engineering to his role as a Senior Systems Engineer at MapR and has been working on Drill for over a year in different environments. Jim was previously a Senior Systems Engineer for WANdisco. Prior to that, Jim was a Senior Systems Engineer for Spirent Communications, a multinational telecommunications test company. Jim has also held various roles in systems engineering at Mu Dynamics.

Agenda:

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM -- Social & Pizza

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM -- Presentation by Jim Bates, Senior Systems Engineer, MAPR

"Self-Service Data Exploration and Analytics on Hadoop with Apache Drill"

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM -- Q/A and discussion.

Venue: 2603 Camino Ramon, # 200, San Ramon, CA - 94583.

I look forward to your suggestions on topics and speakers for the future meet-up presentations.

Looking forward to seeing you - East Bay Biggies, in big numbers on 30th September.

-Shiv