Small Data
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Kansas City Data Professionals Presents
Small Data
Speaker: Matthew Copple
Event Overview
Big platforms are powerful. But not every problem needs a cluster.
At this month’s Kansas City Data Professionals meetup, Matthew Copple will introduce the concept of Small Data and challenge the assumption that every analytics workload belongs in a distributed cloud environment.
Most analysts are not working with billions of rows at a time. Yet many teams default to expensive interactive compute for exploratory data analysis, experimentation, and development.
What if that is overkill?
Matthew will share practical strategies for reducing cloud consumption costs by leveraging modern hardware and tools like DuckDB to offload appropriate workloads to:
• Local machines
• Lightweight cloud compute
• Non-distributed environments
This is not a takedown of Databricks, Snowflake, or other enterprise platforms. Those systems are incredible at what they do.
But if a Kia will get you where you need to go, why pay for a Lexus?
Agenda
- 5:30 - 5:45 - Arrival & Open Networking
- 5:45 - 6:25 - Presentation
- 6:25 - 7:00 - Open Networking
Parking and Access: Parking is free and available in any of the Hive spots on the north side of the lot just east of the building. Enter on the east side near the southwest corner of 7th and Central Street. Take the elevator to the 3rd floor and check in at the registration desk.
