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DevOps Special – Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers.

DevOps Special - Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers. Hosted by Dj D. Details Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers: What Works and What Doesn’t. A special meetup brought to you by Big Data Cloud with focus on the DevOps side of the world of Big Data. ------------------------------------------------------------ Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 pm: Registration and Snacks. 6:30 - 6:35 pm: Opening remarks and housekeeping. 6:35 - 7:15 pm: TBA 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Break • 7:30 - 8:30 pm Deploying Hadoop Using Docker Containers:What Works and What Doesn’t Presenter: Nasser Manesh, Altiscale, Inc. In this presentation, Nasser will share his experiences and [...]

Securing Enterprise Data with Hadoop : What Are Your Options?

Securing Enterprise Data with Hadoop : What Are Your Options? Hosted by Dj D. Details A key driver to getting Hadoop into production is to enable rapid time-to-insight for your company. Unfortunately, the realization that sensitive, regulated data— payments transactions, customer personally identifiable information (PII), and more—will be flowing unprotected into the Hadoop “data lake”, can present a big hurdle to implementation. Join us to understand architectural options for securing Hadoop data, illustrated by real-world use cases. Agenda • 6:00 - 6:30 - Registration/Dinner and Socializing • 6:30 - 6:35 - Opening remarks, and housekeeping • 6:35 - 7:35 - [...]

Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data

Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data. Hosted by Dj D. and Samita S. Details Extending Enterprise Data Warehousing into the world of Big Data – Business Value Creation & Technical Use Cases. An evening of presentation and fireside chat with “Dean of Big Data” Bill Schmarzo (EMC) and Big Data Strategist - Rajiv Synghal (Kaiser Permanente). A special meetup brought to you by Big Data Cloud with the support and sponsorship from Xplain.io to showcase the real world business use cases from industry pioneers. Agenda: 6:00pm-6:30pm: Registration and Snacks. 6:30-6:35pm: Opening remarks and housekeeping. 6:35-7:30pm Systematic [...]

Predictive Analytics for Crime Detection & Prediction – LIVE WEBINAR

Predictive Analytics for Crime Detection & Prediction – LIVE WEBINAR Committing Crime is the final frontier – where a human starts to degenerate into a renegade, a social waste and capable of causing huge personal and financial loss to individuals, businesses and the government.  Thus, battling crime, reducing the number of occurrences, preventing and predicting crime has become a huge commitment for police forces around the world. […]

Real-time Recommendation Systems using Apache Storm

Real-time Recommendation Systems using Apache Storm Generally in recommendation engines, user’s past history on engagements with different items is a key input. However, in many situations in an enterprise’s business cycle, it is necessary to generate recommendations based on user activity in real time. […]

Apache Shark & Storm Use Cases – Big Data Cloud Meetup – April 3 2014

Apache Shark & Storm Use Cases – Big Data Cloud Meetup – April 3 2014 Big Data analytics is the answer for businesses to glean insights from data and take timely actions. We now have a plethora technologies at our disposal to perform such Big Data analytics. This webinar showcases how business can perform Big Data analytics using Hive, PrestoDB and BigQuery. In this one-hour webinar, we will showcase & discuss: Data ingestion to visualization - end to end data flow of Twitter feed Running various types of queries, including ones with UDFs Comparing querying capabilities & performances between [...]

WHY HADOOP? WHY NOW?

  As data volumes explode throughout the universe; data variety becomes increasingly important for consideration in business decisions, and data velocity no longer remains a technical challenge – we enter a new world dominated by data that requires new technologies to meet it’s new demands. […]

BDC Learning Track – Studying & Implementing Recommendation Engine Algorithms.

BDC Learning Track - Studying & Implementing Recommendation Engine Algorithms. Hosted by Dj D. Details This is a FREE event. Agenda 06:30 pm - 07:00 pm : Networking over Pizza 07:00 pm - 07:30 pm : Introduction to Recommendation Engines 07:30 pm - 08:00 pm : Form study groups and work 08:00 pm - 08:30 pm : Group sessions and Q/A First in a series of four weekly sprints, we will be studying and implementing Recommendation Engine algorithms. We will start with Collaborative Filtering and then slowly expand in to other algorithms as well. We will also be using MongoDB [...]

Big Data Infra for Enterprises – Fraud Detection

Big Data Infra for Enterprises – Fraud Detection Dj D. Hosted by Dj D. Details This Pre-Strata meetup is sponsored by LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.com/risk/). This is part of the "Big Data Infra for Enterprises" series of meetups. Big Data Cloud Inc. A not-for-profit Organization for Evangelizing & Training around Big Data. Founded & Operated by Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC. (https://thirdeyedata.ai/) (Click here to buy the annual membership) Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm : Registration & Mixer 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm: Large Scale Identity Theft and Fraud to Make Bucket Loads of Easy Money - Jo Prichard, [...]

Stop the Customer Separation Pain with Bayesian Classifier

Stop the Customer Separation Pain with Bayesian Classifier In my last post, we did some exploratory analytic for customer churn. We identified the parameters that have most influence on whether a customer account gets closed or not. We performed correlation analysis using Cramer index. In  this post, we will take the next step forward i.e., build a Bayesian prediction model for predicting customer churn. The Hadoop based  Bayesian classifier implementation is part of my open source project avenir on github. We will use the same mobile service provider customer data as an example, as in the last post. New customer acquisition is expensive. So any predictive [...]

Explore Customer Churn with Cramer Index

Explore Customer Churn with Cramer Index Classification problems involve predicting a response variable based on  a set of feature variables for some entity. But there is another problem whose solution is a prerequisite for solving classification problem. We may want to know which among the set of feature variables are most strongly correlated to the response variables. Once we have identified those, we may only want to use that sub set of the feature variables to build the prediction model. To put this in context, we will use the customer churn prediction problem, specifically for mobile telecom service [...]

Big Data Case Studies

Big Data Case Studies Hosted by Dj D. Details Meet-up to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies to businesses, professionals & individuals . Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:15 pm : Registration & Mixer 6:15 pm – 7:00 pm: Evolution of Big Data Architecture at Facebook - a case study - Ashish Thusoo, Qubole, ex-Facebook Ashish will talk about how big data architectures have evolved at Facebook from 2007 till 2011. The talk will cover some of the challenges faced in a highly dynamic and fast growing environment and will present the motivations behind some of the [...]

BigDataCloud Meetup on Big Data Analytics

BigDataCloud Meetup on Big Data Analytics Hosted by Dj D. Details Meet-up to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies to businesses, professionals & individuals . This month's meetup is sponsored by Sybase Inc (http://www.sybase.com). The venue is provided by Microsoft Corp. (http://www.microsoft.com) The event is organized by Third Eye (https://thirdeyedata.ai/) Consulting Services. Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:15 pm Registration & Mixer 6:15 pm – 7:00 pm: Topic 1 : To be Announced - By Saptak Sen - Microsoft Corp. 7:15 pm – 8:00 pm: Topic 2 : Big Data Analytics in a Heterogeneous World - By [...]

BigDataCloud Today! – Hadoop Classes, Business Panels, Peer Networking

BigDataCloud Today! - Hadoop Classes, Business Panels, Peer Networking Hosted by Dj D. Details An event to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies as it is TODAY to businesses, professionals & individuals. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE EVENT SITE (http://bigdatacloudtoday.com) Agenda: - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Big Data Classes - 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch for Students - 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Big Data Classes - Continuation - 3:00 pm - 3:10 pm Opening Address by (http://thirdeyecloud.com/) Dj Das - Third Eye Consulting Services (http://thirdeyecloud.com/) (Organizer) - 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Keynote [...]

Big Data & Cloud Computing – Help, Educate & Demystify.

Big Data & Cloud Computing - Help, Educate & Demystify. Hosted by Dj D. Details Meet-up to help, educate and de-mystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies to businesses, professionals & individuals. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. Thus, taking “Big Data” & “Cloud Computing out of the “buzz” realm and placing it firmly in the “evolutionary technology” realm, we created this meet-up to help, educate and de-mystify [...]