Agile Data Science

Abstract:
Russell Jurney (author of Agile Data) will present about rapidly prototyping analytics applications using the Hadoop stack to return to agility in light of the ever deepening analytics stack. The presentation uses Hadoop, Pig, NoSQL stores and lightweight web frameworks to rapidly connect end-users to real insights. Topics covered include writing User Defined Functions in Pig and publishing insights mined on Hadoop to NoSQL stores like MongoDB, HBase, and Cassandra, and using Python, Ruby, JRuby and Node.js to present data mined on Hadoop in a web browser.

Schedule:
6:30 - 7:00pm Social (food + beer served)
7:00 - 8:00pm Talk
8:00+ Social

As always, recordings will be attempted, but the best option is to attend in person.