Digging into Big Data with Google's BigQuery and Apache Spark

Welcome to yet another episode of the Colombo Big Data Meetup! (https://www.meetup.com/LKBigData/)

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SESSION #1: Digging into Big Data with Google's BigQuery

SPEAKER: Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, Team Lead, DuoSoftware (Pvt) Ltd.,

Google BigQuery is a petabyte scale, low cost analytics data warehouse owned by Google. We will start the session with an introduction, Features and components of Big Query. Then, we will discuss how to analyze big data with Google BigQuery. Finally, we will demonstrate it using a massive data set with D3.JS visualization.

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Sajeetharan is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience. He works as a Team Lead at Duo Software specializing in different Software Products. He is also a full stack web developer who enjoys everything from creating requirements and graphical design to back-end development and hosting. He is an energetic individual with the passion to learn about new things, refining his current skills and taking advantage of the new innovations and technologies. He is a major contributor in Stack Overflow in Sri Lanka ranking 5th with over 20, 000 Reputation Points. During his spare time, he makes use of his extensive knowledge over the past years to contribute to Open Source Products to make the world a better place.

SESSION #2: Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

SPEAKER: Dedunu Dhananjaya, Senior Software Engineer, Pearson Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.,

Apache Spark is an open source framework which enables faster big data operations. We will start with an overview of use cases and demonstrate writing simple Apache Spark applications. Further, in the session we will compare Apache Spark with Apache Hadoop.

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Dedunu Dhananjaya is a Senior Software Engineer at Personalized Learning and Analytics in Pearson. He is interested in data science and analytics. Prior to joining Pearson, Dedunu worked with Zaizi, LIRNEasia, and WSO2. Currently he is reading for his Masters in Applied Statistics at University of Colombo.

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