Strata + Hadoop World London 2015
2015-05-05..2015-05-07
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
data engineers, platform engineers, data scientists, enterprise architects, engineering managers, healthcare data specialists, security and privacy officers
topics
managed wide-column NoSQL; HBase API compatibility; multi-tenant Hadoop platform; mapreduce Java batch ETL; Spark unified programming model; IPython-style notebooks; data lake metadata management; WANdisco Fusion active-active replication; predictive analytics for music hits; privacy opt-out and tracker blocking; knowledge graph for 3D models
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Next Big Step | Cory O'Connor | 05m |
Google launches Google Cloud Bigtable, a fully managed wide‑column NoSQL service that exposes the HBase API so existing HBase clients and deployments migrate… | ||
| Keynote | Julie Meyer | 13m |
A proposal to build entrepreneurcountry.com as an online marketplace already claiming 210,000 citizens and possibly hosted on Hadoop, backed by an investment… | ||
| Ideas that Matter | Tim Harford | 21m |
Argues there are two distinct kinds of innovation: marginal gains (a systematic program of tiny improvements) and long shots (high‑risk, high‑reward research)… | ||
| How BT Uses Hadoop with its CRM | Phillip Radley | 12m |
BT builds a multi-tenant Hadoop platform (Cloudera-based) to replace a daily ETL CMF process comparing nearly a billion records across 12 systems; first… | ||
| Bringing Life to Design: Data Science in 3D | Mike Haley | 11m |
A machine learning system called Design Graph analyzes geometry with an ensemble of unsupervised algorithms across millions of 3D models to produce a knowledge… | ||
| Is Privacy Becoming a Luxury Good? | Julia Angwin | 13m |
Walks through an experiment that spends about $2,500 and a year trying to opt out of surveillance, switching search to DuckDuckGo, blocking ad trackers with… | ||
| What We’ve Learned in 5 Years | Rick Farnell | 12m |
After five years of enterprise Hadoop adoption the concrete lessons are: using multi-petabyte Hadoop clusters to drive measurable business outcomes… | ||
| Hadoop and Healthcare | David Richards | 05m |
Argument that Hadoop economics unlock NHS records for actionable care: wearables and phones detect gait changes and the Michael J. Fox Foundation uses that… | ||
| Road to Real-Time Digital Business | Rod Smith | 10m |
Claims that businesses must move from 20-minute batch answers to sub-second decisions, using historical plus streaming data with just-in-time analytics, and… | ||
| Hadoop: As Easy As Riding a Bike | Tamara Dull | 07m |
Compares Hadoop adoption to learning to ride and gives three concrete prescriptions: agility — make quick decisions as Hadoop evolves; balance — mix legacy… | ||
| Connected Car: World Record Race | Gareth Martin | 06m |
A team attempts a 19,000 km across 19 countries record from North Cape to Cape Agulhas with a Volkswagen Touareg instrumented by HP, aiming for eight days… | ||
| How Shazam Predicts a Song's Future | Cait O'Riordan | 10m |
Shazam leverages 100 million monthly active users and 20 million shazams a day to do concrete prediction and product work: models forecast what will hit the… | ||
| industries needing data disruption | David Richards | 07m |
Claims a downloadable product called WANdisco Fusion that does active-active replication across Hortonworks, Cloudera, Isilon and cloud stores with no… | ||
| acquisition by | Rick Farnell | 08m |
Think Big launches in 2010 as Think Big Analytics and is now acquired by Teradata and rebranded to focus on engineering not just modeling. The company builds… | ||
| Explains the Cloud Bigtable Platform | Shailesh Rao | 09m |
Google announces Google Cloud Bigtable as the managed version of the decade‑old Bigtable system, a low‑latency NoSQL store that uses the Apache API to connect… | ||
| Interview – Fernando Lucini | Fernando Lucini | 13m |
HP commits to keep building applications while also selling tools and consulting, and launches the Haven platform to absorb 100% of the data (structured and… | ||
| What SAS Has Been Up To | Mark Torr | 12m |
SAS launches SAS data loader for Hadoop about a month ago and claims it uses scoop Uzi and generates Hive ql to move data in and out of clusters, plus the… | ||
| Interview – Yodit Stanton | Yodit Stanton | 09m |
Company founded after inability to find real-time air quality feeds for a child with asthma, so a real-time data exchange for IoT is built and deployed… | ||
| Emerging Technologies group | Rod Smith | 12m |
IBM Emerging Technologies acts as a customer-facing research-to-product on-ramp that builds hardened Watson code from research then hands it to product teams… | ||
| incorporating Big Data at | Jason Foster | 09m |
Marks & Spencer moves data to the heart of decision making by building a core digital Big Data engineering team that uses Hadoop-powered ingestion to service… | ||
| the Rapidly Changing Hadoop Ecosystem | Jairam Ranganathan | 12m |
Hadoop evolves from batch-only to a platform running Impala, Spark, Kafka and MLlib so a single copy of data serves interactive queries, streaming and machine… | ||
| its Continued Growth | Roger Magoulas, Doug Cutting | 08m |
Hadoop ecosystem continues rapid expansion with an annual doubling in conference size and steady influx of newcomers; Spark moves from newcomer to becoming the… | ||
| Evil Uses of Data | Francine Bennett | 08m |
Shows how the NYC taxi release enables NYC taxi de-anonymization attacks that map pickups to home addresses and celebrity movements, explains the math behind… | ||
| Value in Data Mashups | Christine Foster | 08m |
Walks into a data-free music company and negotiates by hiding analytics as intuition, later applies mash receipts with review and location lists at ShopKeep to… | ||
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