(1) JupyterLab (2) Beyond SQL, Spark, and MapReduce - ETL Tomorrow

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Presentations:

Grant Nestor

Bio:

Grant Nestor is a core developer for Project Jupyter and co-lead of the JupyterLab/Jupyter Notebook team. He grew up in Santa Barbara, studied Business at University of Southern California, worked in Business Development at Factual, and currently works as a software consultant specializing in open-source. Grant lives in Venice and when he's not working on software, he is usually surfing, climbing, or selling retro corduroy shorts under his Hammies Shorts label.

Title:

JupyterLab: The Jupyter Notebook and Beyond

Abstract:

In this talk, Grant Nestor will introduce you to JupyterLab, the next-generation UI developed by the Project Jupyter team, and its emerging ecosystem of extensions. JupyterLab differs from Jupyter Notebook in that it provides a set of core building blocks for interactive computing (e.g. notebook, terminal, file browser, console) and well-designed interfaces for them that allow users to combine them in novel ways. For end-users, this enables dragging cells between notebooks or executing code blocks from a markdown file in a console. For extension authors, this enables rendering custom visualization for specific file types and mime types or using the Google Drive API to power real-time collaboration between multiple users of the same notebook. Grant will pack in as many demos as time allows and open up for questions at the end.

Josiah Carlson

Bio:

Dr. Josiah Carlson Ph.D. is an American Theoretical Computer Scientist, best well known for his book on Redis; Redis in Action, his talks on Redis and/or Python, his open source libraries relating to Python, Redis, Lua, thousands of public mailing list posts relating to Redis, Python, wxPython, and/or data compression, as well as a handful of blog posts. Professionally, the good doctor has worked on email anti-spam, text search, non-binary classification, GPS navigation, data compression, streaming video, social networks, web ads, core database technology, business finance, and generic ETL pipelines. In open source, Josiah offers timezone-aware cron libraries for Python, a SQLAlchemy-like object layer for Redis, task queue schedulers, and more. Dr. Josiah can most recently be found building his retirement fund out of his home office in Redondo Beach.

Title:

Beyond SQL, Spark, and MapReduce - ETL Tomorrow

Abstract:

Innovation, cost, and laziness are the driving forces behind nearly all of today's technologies. Offerings in the ETL, data processing, and data science space continue to expand into new and old products alike. In this talk, we intend to discuss some advantages for existing solutions in the ETL/data processing/data science space, while thinking forward to where those technologies may be leading us in the coming years.