Google Cloud services for Big Data - With NovaJUG

NCAGTUG (http://www.nca-gtug.org) proudly announces the Patrick from Google Cloud Platform to be at our forum in an another joint Event with NoVAJUG (http://novajug.org/) Don't miss this event if you are into Big Data and Cloud.

Speaker: Patrick Chanezon (http://wordpress.chanezon.com) - Google Developer Relations Manager - Cloud Platform

Patrick joined Google in 2005, he manages the Cloud and Tools Developer Relations team in San Francisco. Previously he has been a Developer Advocate, building and growing developer ecosystems for HTML5, OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API.

Previously he spent 5 years at Sun Microsystems as a software architect working on Sun Portal Server, blogs and syndication feeds, and received the CEO award for helping launch blogs.sun.com (http://blogs.sun.com/). Previously he spent 5 years at AOL and Netscape where he managed the MyNetscape Portal (http://my.netscape.com/), and 2 years at Accenture as a Lotus Notes guru. He co-created the ROME open source project (http://java.net/projects/rome/), and the OSSGTP group in France (http://www.ossgtp.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome).

Abstract: Google is a Data business: over the past few years, many of the tools Google created to store, query, analyze, visualize its data, have been exposed to developers as services. This talk will give you an overview of Google services for Data Crunchers and Web Semantic 3.0 professionals:

- Google Storage for developers

- BigQuery, fast interactive queries on Terabytes of data

- Machine Learning API: Machine Learning made easy

- Google App Engine, exposing Data APIs is a very common use case for App Engine

- Visualization API: many cool visualization components

- Freebase, An entity graph of people, places and things, built by a community that loves open data.

- Google Refine, a power tool to work with messy data

Sponsor: Location is sponsored by Near Infinity Corporation (http://www.nearinfinity.com/)

PS: Please update your RSVP accordingly to accommodate others. We have lot of no-shows in the past few events which affects our food plan!! Hope you understand!!