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September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Barbara Eckman

Barbara Eckman
Principal Data Architect, Comcast

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Barbara Eckman is a principal data architect at Comcast, where she leads data governance for an innovative, division-wide initiative comprising near-real-time ingesting, streaming, transforming, storing, and analyzing big data. Barbara is a technical innovator and strategist with internationally recognized expertise in scientific data architecture and integration. Her experience includes technical leadership positions at a Human Genome Project center, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and IBM. She served on the IBM Academy of Technology, an internal peer-elected organization akin to the National Academy of Sciences.

Sessions

11:20am–12:00pm Thursday, 09/13/2018
Data discovery and lineage: Integrating streaming data in the public cloud with on-prem, classic data stores, and heterogeneous schema types
Location: 1E 09 Level: Advanced
Secondary topics:  Data Integration and Data Pipelines, Data preparation, governance and privacy, Media, Marketing, Advertising
Barbara Eckman (Comcast)
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Comcast’s streaming data platform comprises ingest, transformation, and storage services in the public cloud, with Apache Atlas for data discovery and lineage. Barbara Eckman explains how Comcast recently integrated on-prem data sources, including traditional data warehouses and RDBMSs, which required its data governance strategy to include relational and JSON schemas in addition to Apache Avro. Read more.