Strata Conference in London 2013
2013-11-11..2013-11-13
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
data scientists, data engineers, public health analysts, data platform engineers, analytics managers, open data practitioners, visualization designers
topics
Hadoop enterprise data hub; Hive Pig HBase Impala; streaming realtime table replication; data versioning and sync; NHS prescribing data analytics; spreadsheet structure and refactoring; open data certification and publishing; care.data record linkage service; storytelling with data visualization; ethnography for analytics; unified EDW and Hadoop architecture; fabric computing and data placement optimizer
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Data Nerding in Public Health | Francine Bennett | 13m |
NHS prescribing and hospital datasets include 400 million prescription rows and millions of practice records and get processed with Hadoop, Cassandra and cloud… | ||
| Introducing Dat: If Git Were Designed For Big Data | Max Ogden | 11m |
Dat is a prototype for data versioning and sync that treats tabular, large and real‑time feeds as a streaming realtime table replicator and aims for… | ||
| Strata Conference in London 2013: Felienne Hermans | Felienne Hermans | 14m |
Research finds a 1,500‑employee bank has 2.5 million spreadsheets, spreadsheets live five years on average and are edited by about 12 people, and 50% are used… | ||
| The Analytical Imperative | Duncan Ross | 12m |
Big data stops being about size and becomes an operational imperative: analytics must sit inside infrastructure so teams can bring data together, iterate and… | ||
| The Future of Data | Doug Cutting | 15m |
Hadoop is already the enterprise data hub: it runs petabytes on thousands of machines, adds SQL and ETL with Hive Pig HBase Impala and search, and removes… | ||
| Demonstrating The Actual Economic Value of Data | Tim Kelsey | 23m |
Claims a national data release will start next June with a care.data linkage service connecting hospital and primary care records for safe anonymous access… | ||
| Keynote | Gavin Starks | 17m |
The Open Data Institute launches an open data certificate used in UK procurement and certifying 500+ datasets, trains 130 people from 11 countries, and… | ||
| Storytelling in the Age of Big Data | Julie Steele | 14m |
Argues that storytelling and data alternate as drivers of discovery, citing Copernicus overturning geocentric epicycle math, Wolfgang Pauli neutrino predicted… | ||
| Perception is Key: Telescopes, Microscopes and Data | Mark Madsen | 26m |
Argues that big data is not brand new but a reframing that changes perception, tracing databases from 1970s hierarchies through SQL standardization in 1986 to… | ||
| Are we asking the right questions about data? | Roger Magoulas | 11m |
Argues that qualitative methods belong alongside analytics, using ethnography and anthropology to explain anomalies data alone misses. Cites a Velocity… | ||
| interviewed | Duncan Ross | 10m |
Framing ethics as “how to use data for evil” exposes specific risks: using call detail records to infer intimate life events and choosing not to act is harmful… | ||
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