Liz Hurley: Engineering Machine Learning with Spark

We'll begin this micro-conference with a presentation from Liz Hurley who will tell us about using Spark for machine learning. We'll follow that with mini-breakouts and lightning talks.

Spark is a technology familiar to many who work with big data, but we hear of Spark more and more frequently in the context of machine learning engineering and data science. This talk will explain why Spark is gaining popularity in machine learning circles. Liz will show a few Spark features that lend themselves so well to ML.

As a true 'open space' conference, the topics will be whatever the participants decide (coordinated on the etherpad (https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/codecraft))!

Schedule:
7:00 Chill out, eat, drink, network, suggest topics and organize breakouts
7:15 Special Presentation, Engineering Machine Learning with Spark
8:00 Mini Breakouts
8:30 Lightning Talks
9:00 Maybe go home

Fuel: Food & beer (provided by CJ (http://engineering.cj.com))