CEO Porn: The world of Data Visualisation. Analytics and In-Memory Databases

It gives us great pleasure to announce the next HUG Ireland event, which will be sponsored by @boitstartups and held at Bank of Ireland, 1 Grand Canal Square, (Off Pearse Street) Silicon Docks, Dublin 2. It will be a great event for all big data professionals and enthusiasts alike with a two talk focus on data visualisation, analytics and in-memory databases.

CEO porn. The world of Data Visualisation by Dr. Finn Macleod, CEO of Beautiful Data (https://www.linkedin.com/in/beautifuldata?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=Iz0I&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CentityType%3AentityHistoryName%2CclickedEntityId%3Amynetwork_mynetwork_78569716%2Cidx%3A1)

Finn worked as a research fellow in University Limerick (UL) on some theoretical aspects of computer science. After a short stint in the circus, he founded his company Beautiful Data that specialises in data visualisation. Finn designed systems that are running with Thomson-Reuters and Heineken. Finn's latest project is zenlikefocus.com (http://zenlikefocus.com/). Finn will be speaking on how lightning fast real time analytics opens up new possibilities to understand and represent information... and not just traditional d3.js stuff. He will cover:

• light entertainment hall of fame data viz favourites

• some future to be seen soon interface possibilities

• automating the data-scientist

Analytics and In-Memory Database Overview by John Sullivan, CEO of InMemory.net (https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-sullivan-a83191?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=RYyA&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CentityType%3AentityHistoryName%2CclickedEntityId%3Amynetwork_438723%2Cidx%3A1)

An overview of the different Analytic and In-Memory Solutions along with where Hadoop best fits in. Here John will give an overview of different In Memory Systems and the use case for them, starting from the small to the large scale covering:

• SQL-Lite – InMemory Mode

• Mysql/Maria DB

• Postgres

• SQL Server ( In Memory Capabilities )

• Oracle ( In Memory Capabilities )

• Qlik / Tableau

• MemSQL

• SAP Hana

• Hadoop / Apache Spark

• Amazon Redshift

InMemory.net (http://inmemory.net/) is an Irish based light weight columnar in memory analytics database. John will cover inMemory.net an explore:

• Columnar Database/InMemory.net Architecture Overview.

• How queries are parsed with Antlr

• Compilation of queries into parallel programs

• Import Scripting language for Importing data

• Retail Sales Data Example

Finally, as promised in our January 11th event, HUG Ireland will have free tickets for the Hadoop Summit Dublin (http://hadoopsummit.org/dublin/) to raffle. We hope you join us at Bank of Ireland for a great evening and a fun raffle for free tickets to what is sure to be an epic Big Data event at the National Convention Centre April 13th and 14th. As HUG Ireland members, we will be issuing a HUG Ireland promotional code so you all can buy discounted tickets for the event should you not be a lucky winner on the evening.

We hope to see you all there on at event where we will explore these fascinating areas of big data with Finn and John. The event hashtag as always is #HUGIreland.