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Data: Workshops

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10:40am Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Essential Data Analysis Workshop
Location: E146
Tags: data_scientists
Philipp Janert (Principal Value, LLC)
Data Analysis is often wrapped in a bit of mystery, with specialized tools, fancy terminology, and difficult techniques. This tutorial takes a different stance: we will review a set of basic methods and techniques, which are nevertheless essential if you want to think about and understand data. Particular emphasis is placed on ways to gain insight through graphical methods. Read more.
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10:40am Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Learning CouchDB
Location: Oregon Ballroom 204
Tags: rest, document-oriented_database, http, json, html5, nosql, javascript, nosql_nerd, couchdb
Bradley Holt (Found Line)
CouchDB is a document-oriented database that uses JSON documents, has a RESTful HTTP API, and employs map/reduce views for querying data. This tutorial will teach web developers the concepts they need to get started using CouchDB in their projects. Libraries are available for CouchDB’s RESTful HTTP API in many programming languages and we will take a look at some of the more popular ones. Read more.
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10:40am Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Consistency or Bust - Breaking a Riak Cluster
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Tags: riak, eventual_consistency, nosql, nosql_nerd
Jeffrey Kirkell (NOW Technologies, Inc.)
The popularity of NoSQL opens up an endless array of possible uses but also causes its own set of problems. Riak, a NoSQL offering created by Basho solves this by claiming to have no single point of failure. Proving this goes a long way to dispelling the concerns within an enterprise to begin adopting a non-relational solution. Read more.
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1:40pm Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Pro PostgreSQL 9
Location: Oregon Ballroom 204
Tags: sql, postgres, dba
Robert Treat (OmniTI)
The open source database landscape has never been in more turmoil, and yet the popularity of Postgres continues to grow and grow. Get up to speed on what you need to know to administer the world's most advanced open source database, including installation, configuration, tuning, and how best to use PostgreSQL's community resources; with special focus on Postgres 9 and the upcoming 9.1 release. Read more.
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1:40pm Wednesday, 07/27/2011
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to A Kaggle Competition
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Tags: heritage_health, mahout, analytics, big_data, hadoop, r-lang, competitions, kaggle
Krishna Sankar (Genophen)
Algorithms are getting raunchier, tools more potent and competitions more intimate! Let us mix analytics tools (like R & Mahout) and a dash of algorithmics to work on BigData Analytics competitions and see if the answer is always 42. In the process we will explore and apply a few good algorithms, to the Heritage Health competition … Read more.
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4:10pm Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Hands On Mahout - Mammoth Scale Machine Learning
Location: Oregon Ballroom 203
Tags: mahout, large_data, hadoop, recommendation, classification, data_scientists, clustering, machine_learning, ml
Robin Anil (Google), Ted Dunning (MapR Technologies)
This hands-on tutorial aims at learning the basics of the important machine learning algorithms in Mahout. It aims to help you get it up and running on a Hadoop cluster. Mahout is open source implementation of a collection of algorithms designed from ground up to sift through terabytes of data and help bring out important patterns which are otherwise not in the reach of standard tools. Read more.
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4:10pm Wednesday, 07/27/2011
Cook Up a Data Mashup on the Fly with Infochimps
Location: Oregon Ballroom 204
Tags: mash_up, data_api, api, data-in-the-cloud, data_in_the_cloud, mashup
Dhruv Bansal (Infochimps), Winnie Hsia (Infochimps)
You have an idea for an app. Great! First you have to munge and maintain the data. Did you know there is one data API to pull clean, updated data from multiple sources? It slices, it dices, it serves out data on geo, social & more! And you don't need even touch MySQL. Mash up some data with the Infochimps Data Scientists Jacob Perkins, Dhruv Bansal and Ham the Incredible Coding Chimp. Read more.