[Webinar] Introduction to Big Data: Amazon Web Services & Apache Spark

In this talk, the speaker will discuss the latest trends in big data tools and platforms and give an introduction to AWS and Apache Spark. There will also be a demo of an end-to-end big data project shown at the end.

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You can join the session with this Zoom meeting link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUldOirrTkqHd1uzKGB2mYKCmQHxLUWEvJf

*Please make sure to leave time before the start of the session for registration

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Schedule (Times listed below are in EDT):

• 6:00pm - 6:30pm: Open registration
• 6:30pm - 8:30pm: Webinar & Demo
• 8:30pm - 9:00pm: Q&A

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Topics Covered:

• Introduction to Big Data and Use Cases
• Introduction to AWS
• Introduction to Apache Spark
• [Project Demo] An end-to-end big data and machine learning pipeline (databricks)

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Who is this event for?

• Anyone who wants to learn more about the latest trends in big data
• Data scientists who are interested in learning big data

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Learn More:

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Speaker: Shaohua Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of WeCloudData

Shaohua Zhang is a practitioner and thought leader in applied data science and big data technologies. He has over 11 years of experience in applied data science and has built a strong reputation for constructing high-performance data scientist teams in the past. Shaohua is currently the co-founder and CEO of WeCloudData, Canada's leading Data Science Education Accelerator, where he works on bringing more Data Science and AI talents to the Canadian job market.

Prior to co-founding WeCloudData, Shaohua worked as a senior data scientist at Kik Interactive and also helped build a high-performance data science team at BlackBerry that focused on building innovative data science solutions for marketing, CRM, and product teams. He is specialized in user interest graph modelling, targeted advertising, scalable location intelligence, and large-scale recommendation engines for mobile personalization.

He has also collaborated with Ryerson’s Data Science Lab on several big data research projects and helped develop the big data course at Ryerson University in 2015, where he trained over 150 professionals on big data technologies. He is a Data Growth Coach at Communitech and the lead facilitator of the Communitech Academy Data Science Fundamentals Bootcamp.

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Sponsorship: Manning Publications

This event is sponsored by Manning Publications. Visit manning.com and use code "weclouddata39" to receive a 39% discount on your next purchase. This discount code is eligible for all books and items sitewide.