Kick off Spark Budapest!

Hi,

Join us at our first meetup and understand the basics of Spark, why Spark is important and how it can be integrated into a data analytics workflow.

This meetup is part of a series of 4 meetups. In this series we will move deeper into Spark and showcase various use-cases.

TALKS

Intro to Spark 1: What is Spark and why is it important?

Bence Arato, CEO, BI Consulting.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencearato

Spark has gained a widespread interest in the past few years and currently it is considered to be the most actively developed Big Data framework. In this non-technical talk I will discuss the main features of Spark and give you a few reasons that explain its popularity.

Use Case 1: Spark Integration @ RapidMiner

Zoltan C. Toth, Big Data Engineer @ RapidMiner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltanctoth

At RapidMiner we create a software that allows everyone make predictive analytics easily, without coding. Nowadays we work hard to achieve a seamless integration of Spark in RapidMiner Studio.

I will tell you about why Spark integration is important, how we achieved it and what are the challenges and pitfalls we ran into.

See you on the 29th at Prezi!
All the best,

The organizers, Bence and Zoltan