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WASHINGTON D.C. Event Schedule
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Controlling Complex Systems Using Big Data
WINFORMS, the Washington, DC chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, presents its April meeting in conjunction with Big Data Week:
Robust automatic control is an ongoi . . .ng challenge with many applications. One example is predictive dialing in outbound telephone call centers, where estimating how long completed calls stay connected and synchronizing new call attempts to current service greatly increases productivity and reduces nuisance calls. Now it is possible, using current data-handling and computational capabilities, to do predictive dialing much more effectively and inexpensively utilizing Cloud computing, wherein massive simulation experiments that used to take weeks can now be conducted in less than a minute. These capabilities open up exciting new areas for R&D, with many applications, but also raise interesting questions about how to smooth performance.
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Timing: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by WINFORMS
nahas_nicholas@bah.com
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Meetup
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Getting Started with Big Data Analytics
Getting started with Big Data Analytics can be a daunting task because of the complexities of the technologies and the fast evolution of the software ecosystem. This talk will expose analytics profess . . .ionals to established open source big data technologies and provide them with practical methods to prototype and develop big data analytics without requiring deep knowledge of software development or distributed computing. Come learn the secrets that hard core software developers don’t want you to know! The talk will cover
· An overview of Hadoop and Map Reduce
· Alternatives to writing Java code to develop analytics on Hadoop
· The big data analytic development lifecycle – How to go from data to insights
· A worked example using the principals we discussed
· How you can get started with big data technologies today
Bio:
Brian Keller is a Data Scientist at the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, where he has applied analytics and data mining techniques on a variety of applications for the last four years. For the last two years, Brian has worked extensively with cloud computing technologies to develop analytics that generate knowledge from big data. Brian holds a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Timing: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Maryland Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
jennifer.e.leong.jl@gmail.com
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Level: Basic
Format: Presentation
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Big Data Visualization
Data Visualization DC is happy to coordinate with Big Data Week to present UMD Professor Ben Shneiderman’s “Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery: Turning Messy BigData into Actionable Sma . . .llData”. Ben’s interactive visualization tools have led to commercial success stories such as Spotfire, Smart Money’s Market Map and the Hive Group, as well as research tools such as TimeSearcher, developed at UMD for time series data analysis.
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Timing: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Data Community DC
seang@datacommunitydc.org
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Meetup
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Natural Language Processing and Big Data
The Data Science DC Meetup presents its April meeting in conjunction with Big Data Week:
We have two presenters talking about their work with very different, very large text data sets. First, Ben Beng . . .fort from Unbound Concepts will be talking about how they use Python’s NLTK and Hadoop Streaming to make sense of their corpus of children’s literature. Then, Tom Rindflesch from the National Library of Medicine will talk about his group’s work building a system to help medical researchers keep up with the flood of current and historical articles published on PubMed.
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Timing: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Data Science DC
harlan@datacommunitydc.org
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Meetup
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Challenges of Visualizing and Exploring Big Data
Big Data DC is excited to participate in the global Big Data Week (http://bigdataweek.com/). We are very lucky to have Will Gorman, Chief Architect of Penthao, coming in from California to present to . . . our group. I’ve known Will for a long time and I’m sure the talk will be great. In addition to being a great software engineer Will is also an award winning LEGO designer. Hopefully he will share some of the secrets behind things like the model of Mars Curiosity he built in partnership with NASA (http://www.battlebricks.com/curiosity/).
Here is the abstract for Will’s talk:
Traditional visualization and data exploration tools struggle to deal with the many qualities that define big data. What visualizations are useful for exploring datasets that are orders of magnitude larger than the number of pixels on your computer screen? What data structures and algorithms are useful for exploring sparse, schemaless datasets? How do you deal with a petabyte of dirty data? How do you empower your business users so that they can explore this data? In this talk, we’ll discuss the algorithms, architectures, and solutions that address these scenarios. Will Gorman is the Chief Architect at Pentaho, a software company focused on building Big Data Analytics software.
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Timing: 6:30pm – 9.30pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by AddThis
abramsm@gmail.com
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Meetup
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Big Data Happy Hour
Coinciding with the Data Business DC event later in the evening, we’re excited to throw a Big Data Happy Hour! All are welcome to mingle, talk Big Data, and enjoy appetizers courtesy of our generous s . . .ponsors. We have reserved space at Blackfinn, an excellent bar downtown.
Data Community DC President Harlan Harris will be providing a short overview of the buzzword scene, including his thoughts on what you need to know about Data Science, Big Data, and the data and analytics ecosystem — globally, and here in the DC area.
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Timing: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Data Community DC
mr.chad.robinson@gmail.com
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Level: Basic
Format: Networking party
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Big Data Infrastructure
For the April Data Business DC (DBDC) meetup, we are going to change it up a bit, moving away from startups to BIG companies, and examine big data infrastructure possibilities from Oracle, Intridea, a . . .nd MapR Technologies. We will feature three, 30-minute talks from some of the biggest names in technology and hope to see you there.
Note that this event will coincide with the Big Data Happy Hour — you’re encourage to attend that event, then walk the few blocks to this DBDC Meetup by 7pm.
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Timing: 6.45pm – 8:30pm
Theme: Data & Communications
Organised by Data Community DC
seanm@datacommunitydc.org
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Level: Basic
Format: Meetup
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Social Network Analytics – Mining the Growing Tidal Wave of Data
We have an action-packed meet-up set for April 25th with presentations from 3 DC-Based players in the exploding analysis of data sourced in social networks. Presenters from Resonate Insights, Basho, . . .and Ikanow will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with all this new data.
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Timing: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Theme: Social & Personal
Organised by Open Analytics DC
sraspa@ikanow.com
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Level: Basic
Format: Meetup
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Webinar: Data Analytics – How Cities Can Get Ahead of the Curve to Improve Performance
This webinar will provide a broad and engaging overview of the development of municipal applications of data analytics from Stephen Goldsmith, with examples drawn from cities across the country. City . . .leaders from communities like Louisville will describe the challenges – and opportunities – associated with these new strategies. The presentation will close with a half-hour panel discussion on how cities of all sizes can discover, replicate and scale predictive analytics initiatives at home.
Speakers
• Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in Government program and Data-Smart City Solutions, Harvard Kennedy School
• Ted Smith, Director of Department of Economic Growth & Innovation, City of Louisville, Kentucky
• Bryan Grenon, Operations Lieutenant, City of Seattle, Washington
• Mike Reade, Business Value Consultant, Public Safety, Government Industry, IBM
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Timing: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Theme: Public & Government
Organised by National League of Cities; Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School;Public Technology Institute
datasmart@ash.harvard.edu
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Level: Basic
Format: Online event
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Big Data Breakfast
Big data is a hot topic and is set to be one of the fastest growing fields of 2013. But this is not news to the Maryland area; we already have an abundance of highly qualified big data practitioners. . . .So let’s bring all the experts together in one place and discuss where big data is going in the future. This breakfast is meant to be an open discussion among the big data gurus with suggested big data topics from the moderators – the Data Science MD co-organizers. We will also review the Maryland and DC contributions to Big Data Week. For those of you who do not consider yourselves big data experts yet, come, listen and learn. Or just come for the bagels, coffee and networking.
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Timing: 8:00am – 9:30am
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Data Science MD
jason@datacommunitydc.org
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Breakfast meeting
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Intro to Big Data with Hadoop Workshop
To conclude Big Data Week, we are holding a hands-on introductory Hadoop workshop on Saturday, April 27th. You’ve heard and read about it everywhere, now come learn what it is and how to use it. By . . .the end of the workshop, you will have successfully set up a Hadoop cluster and run different types of queries on the data.
What You Will Learn:
* What Hadoop is and how it works
* How to run a MapReduce script
* Use cases where Hadoop should be used
* How to use Pig, Hive, and Mahout
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Timing: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Theme: Cross Sector
Organised by Tony Ojeda
tony@datacommunitydc.org
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Level: Intermediate
Format: Workshop
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