45th meetup - open source data tools

On January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite. It was designed, built and operated by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and carried a cosmic ray detector. That detector lead to Explorer Principal Investigator Dr. James Van Allen's discovery of radiation belts around Earth held in place by the planet's magnetic field. The findings were later named Van Allen belts in honor of their discoverer.

Is that relevant, to our 45th meetup? No ... but still very interesting to know! What is relevant is our presentation lineup for tonight:

• our friends at Real-Impact Analytics are not only so kind to host us for this evening, but they will also present Trumania, the tool they are open-sourcing to generate synthetic datasets. You can read up on RIA's blog https://realimpactanalytics.com/en/news/trumania-or-the-need-for-an-artificial-digital-world. (Gautier Krings & Sven Vanderveken, RIA)
• VRT has been building a realtime streaming stack, at first for the audience measurements from their video streaming platform https://vrt.nu, but widening to VRTNWS, monitoring, etc. The platform is gently being open-sourced as https://github.com/dataprism covering ingestion, processing, provisioning and laboratory exploration of data, all from within the browser ... yes, even developing the processing. (Matthias De Vriendt, VRT)
• Dataminded has been building their own tools to organise and structure data lakes. Lighthouse will be the opensource version of their years of expertise in the field (Dataminded)

See you on the last day of the month!
-BD.be

19h30 - doors
20h00 - Trumania, FOSS synthetic data generator (Gautier Krings & Svend Vanderveken, RIA)
20h30 - Dataprism, FOSS realtime data platform (Matthias De Vriendt, VRT)
21h00 - break
21h15 - Lighthouse, FOSS tool to build and structure your datalake (Dataminded)
21h45 - Networking