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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
9:00am
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Joseph Adler (Confluent),
Hilary Mason (Fast Forward Labs),
Drew Conway (Alluvium),
Jake Hofman (Yahoo!)
Average rating:
(3.17, 29 ratings)
This tutorial offers a basic introduction to practicing data science.
We'll walk through several typical projects that range from
conceptualization to acquiring data, to analyzing and visualizing it,
to drawing conclusions.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Discover how the industrial revolution in data will affect your business. Learn about the new opportunities and challenges that big data and analytics provide, hear from successful data-driven businesses, and plan for the impact on your organization's infrastructure and personnel.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Abe Taha (Karmasphere),
Shevek - (Karmasphere),
Ken Krugler (Scale Unlimited),
Chris Wensel (Concurrent, Inc)
Average rating:
(1.57, 23 ratings)
This tutorial will explain MapReduce and how to develop big data applications in Java and high level languages such as Pig and Hive SQL. Using examples it will cover how to prototype, debug, monitor, test and optimize big data applications for Hadoop. Attendees will get hands-on instruction and will leave with a solid understanding of how to analyze data on Hadoop clusters and practical examples.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Ken Hilburn (Juice Analytics),
Zach Gemignani (Juice Analytics)
Average rating:
(3.67, 9 ratings)
"Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." - Rime of the Ancient Mariner. People feel overwhelmed with data. But the problem is not with the amount of data. The problem is that data is not presented in a form that people can understand and use. Juice Analytics will present and demonstrate proven techniques to design information applications to present data in enjoyable and rewarding ways.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Michael Driscoll (Metamarkets)
Average rating:
(3.00, 4 ratings)
Much of the world's most valuable information is trapped in digital sand, siloed in servers scattered around the globe. In this talk I'll discuss the promise of big data, which will come to pass in the coming decade, driven by advances in three principle areas: sensor networks, cloud computing, and machine learning.
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9:45am
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Barry Devlin (9sight Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
With Big Data comes Big Promises. Mine the blogsphere and discover the secret of eternal wealth. Feast on the Twitter feeds for the wisdom of the ages. We have visited this land in the past, naming it data warehousing and business intelligence. Will we learn the lessons of history? Can we do it differently today? Let’s take this present moment to review the past and imagine the future.
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11:00am
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Bob Page (eBay)
Average rating:
(4.44, 9 ratings)
There's never just one way to do things, but for big bets like Big Data, it helps to learn about paths that others have taken. In this presentation, Bob Page, VP Data & Analytics Platforms for eBay, gives a "behinds the scenes" look at the systems and procedures in that power decision-making at the world's largest online marketplace.
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11:45am
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Mark Madsen (Third Nature)
Average rating:
(4.42, 12 ratings)
There has been an explosion in database technology designed to handle big data and deep analytics from both established vendors and startups. This session will provide a quick tour of the primary technology innovations and systems powering the analytic database landscape.
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12:30pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Location: Mezzanine
Lunch
(1h)
1:30pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Location: Mission City M
Average rating:
(3.80, 5 ratings)
This tutorial offers a basic introduction to practicing data science. We'll walk through several typical projects that range from conceptualization to acquiring data, to analyzing and visualizing it, to drawing conclusions.
Read more.
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Discover how the industrial revolution in data will affect your business. Learn about the new opportunities and challenges that big data and analytics provide, hear from successful data-driven businesses, and plan for the impact on your organization's infrastructure and personnel.
Read more.
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)
Average rating:
(3.53, 19 ratings)
Apache Cassandra is a second-generation distributed database originally open-sourced by Facebook. Its write-optimized shared-nothing architecture results in excellent performance and scalability.
This tutorial will cover application design with Cassandra through a series of exercises with Twissandra, a simple Twitter clone written in Python and Django.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Naomi Robbins (NBR)
Average rating:
(3.58, 12 ratings)
This tutorial describes how to draw clear, concise, accurate graphs that are easier to understand than many of the graphs one sees today. The tutorial emphasizes how to avoid common mistakes that produce confusing or even misleading graphs. Graphs for one, two, three, and many variables are covered as well as general principles for creating effective graphs.
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Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Marilyn Craig (Logitech),
Terence Craig (PatternBuilders)
Average rating:
(1.73, 11 ratings)
Retailers and their suppliers have always operated on the cutting edge of data science. In fact, this industry is responsible for many of the technology advances that have contributed to the exponential growth of data, analytics, and related technology. This session covers the history of data science in retail, current trends, and explores future directions in the “big” data age.
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2:15pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Marc Parrish (Barnes & Noble)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
This presentation will focus on how businesses can maximize big data analytics for deeper customer insights.
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3:30pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
J. C. Herz (Ion Channel Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.43, 14 ratings)
This presentation lays bare the dark underbelly of analytics in the enterprise. Drawing on darkly humorous experiences, the speaker will explain why executives treat analytics as an occult phenomenon. The talk will give executives the mental tools to separate strategically valuable analytics projects from fishing expeditions, and provide litmus tests to keep the witch doctors honest.
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4:15pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
John Fritz (AMD)
Average rating:
(3.22, 9 ratings)
Big Data and predictive analytics can deliver incredible insight that can be used for purposes both good, and not so good. Drawing on real world examples, this session will examine the fine line between competitive advantage and bad behavior, and implications to a complex cast of stakeholders. Let’s begin a dialog on ethics now instead of waiting for our first major crisis.
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7:30pm
Tuesday, 02/01/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
At the inaugural edition of Strata, we’re hosting our first ever Startup Showcase. Highlighting the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, the Showcase will give you a chance to get your company in front of a global community of leaders in the technology industry-—as well as potential investors.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
8:45am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Edd Wilder-James (Silicon Valley Data Science),
Alistair Croll (Solve For Interesting)
Average rating:
(3.85, 13 ratings)
Edd Dumbill and Alistair Croll welcome you to Strata.
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9:00am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Hilary Mason (Fast Forward Labs)
Average rating:
(4.16, 45 ratings)
Data science is evolving rapidly. I'll talk about our current and slightly future technical and philosophical challenges, including realtime vs non-realtime analysis, streams of data vs traditional databases, and some of the opportunities we have to learn amazing things about the world through our data and what this means for those of us who are immersed in working with it.
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9:10am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
James Powell (Thomson Reuters)
Average rating:
(2.19, 36 ratings)
Ours is a new era of big behavioral data. Unprecedented business model experimentation is rapidly eroding individual privacy despite rising consumer concerns. Successfully managing privacy is a key differentiator for services providers. In the B2B space, the stakes to get privacy right are even higher. This talk will discuss the implications of privacy in order to succeed in the B2B space.
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9:25am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Mark Madsen (Third Nature)
Average rating:
(4.22, 50 ratings)
Big data and analytics have developed a mythology rooted in underlying assumptions. We need to ignore these myths and think clearly about how organizations use data, which means understanding how people use information and make decisions.
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9:35am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Werner Vogels (Amazon.com)
Average rating:
(3.36, 42 ratings)
The new data centricity drives that we have to rethink how we collect, store, manage, analyze and share our data, as all these processes now require limitless resources. This talk will focus on the changes in infrastructure requirements to support the new world and how innovations are removing barriers for companies to be successful.
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9:50am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Zane Adam (Microsoft Corp)
Average rating:
(1.88, 33 ratings)
Zane Adam from Microsoft speaks about the Azure Data Marketplace.
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10:00am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Average rating:
(2.50, 20 ratings)
The tools we use play a key role in how we use and respond to big data. Hear about the changes being led by key architects of future big data systems.
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10:10am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Data competitions come of age: from movie recommendations to life and death. Possibly the biggest news at Strataconf is Heritage Provider Network's $3 million predictive modeling prize - the biggest data mining competition ever. It requires data scientists to build algorithms that predict who will go to hospital in the next year, so that preventive action can be taken.
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10:15am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Ballroom ABCD
Morning Break: Sponsored by Microsoft
(25m)
10:40am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Peter Skomoroch (Skipflag)
Average rating:
(3.37, 30 ratings)
Learn how to leverage data exhaust, the digital byproduct of our online activities, to solve problems and discover insights about the world around you. We will walk through a real world example which combines several datasets and statistical techniques to discover insights and make predictions about attendees at O'Reilly Strata.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Lukas Biewald (CrowdFlower)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Topics for any discipline that focuses on quantitative or technical data have always depended on the datasets that were available at the time. Crowdsourcing has changed that — democratizing the data-collection process and cutting researchers’ reliance on stagnant, overused datasets. Tools like Amazon Mechanical Turk allow anyone to gather data overnight, rather than waiting years.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Jock Mackinlay (Tableau Software)
Average rating:
(3.31, 13 ratings)
Interactive visualizations have become the new media for telling stories online. This session will focus on going from a good visualization to a great visualization by focusing on organization, user interface, and formatting. You should expect to leave this session confident in your ability to consistently create excellent interactive visuals.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Ed Boyajian (EnterpriseDB)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
The move to cloud infrastructure and the need to handle big data have created the perfect catalysts for organizations to introduce new infrastructure software and break ties from their expensive incumbent vendors. Ed will share a detailed strategy on how to leverage open source database solutions like PostgreSQL to contain database cost and free budget for other, more valuable initiatives.
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11:30am
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Brian Dolan (Discovix ),
Joe Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
Average rating:
(3.75, 20 ratings)
A discussion of Big Data approaches to analysis problems in marketing, forecasting, academia and enterprise computing. We focus on practices to enhance collaboration and employ rich statistical methods: a Magnetic, Agile and Deep (MAD) approach to analytics. While the approach is language-agnostic, we show that sophisticated statistics can be easily scaled in traditional environments like SQL.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Cindi Thompson (Deloitte Consulting LLP)
Average rating:
(1.88, 8 ratings)
Much useful business data is in "semi-structured" form: government filings, insurance claims, customer comment forms, etc. Although most search tools don't take advantage of it, knowing a little structure goes a long way. This talk will show how semi-structured data can be interpreted, summarized, and applied to produce business value in several real-life examples.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Dustin Kirk (Neustar)
Average rating:
(2.40, 15 ratings)
When faced endless data and the need to manage it, there are a variety of proven design patterns that will help designers create usable, efficient, and effective interfaces. From distributing workload to reducing sensory overload, we’ll review the techniques that are enabling the highly scalable user interfaces of today and tomorrow.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Tim Estes (Digital Reasoning)
Average rating:
(3.92, 12 ratings)
Developing a social network map is fundamental to comprehensively understanding a person. Social networks are dynamic and better derived from real-world data than static configurations. However, the vast majority of this real world data is unstructured. This preso will show how Synthesys uses very large scale unstructured data to create social network maps for reporting and further analysis.
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12:10pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mezzanine
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoF topics are entirely up to you. Wednesday's Lunchtime BoF sessions will happen on the hotel side of the Hyatt Regency, Mezzanine Level.
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1:40pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Matt Biddulph (Product Club)
Average rating:
(3.64, 25 ratings)
If you're a new startup looking for investment, or a team at a large company seeking the green light for a new product, nothing convinces like real running code. But how do you solve the chicken-and-egg problem of filling your early prototype with real data? We'll discuss how to use open datasets and public web APIs as a proxy for the final product while you're still in the development stage.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle)
Average rating:
(3.89, 9 ratings)
Data modeling competitions allow companies and researchers to post a problem and have it scrutinised by the world's best data scientists. By exposing a problem to a wide audience, competitions are a great way to get the most out of a dataset. In just a few months, Kaggle's competitions have helped to progress the state of the art in chess ratings and HIV research.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Kim Rees (Periscopic)
Average rating:
(4.00, 17 ratings)
While the majority of charts were designed to handle a variety of data, there is a certain novelty of presenting data in a very succinct way. By designing a presentation method restricted to specific data points, we can realize an economy of space and interface.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Peter Jackson (Thomson Reuters)
Average rating:
(3.57, 7 ratings)
Our talk summarizes some recent thinking in the field of vertical search and illustrates it in the context of a new version of Westlaw, called WestlawNext. We argue that getting the right allocation of function between person and machine is the key to making specialist content more findable and search results more understandable.
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2:30pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Philip (Flip) Kromer (CSC)
Average rating:
(3.93, 29 ratings)
How do you build a crack team of data scientists on a shoestring budget? In this 40-minute presentation from the co-founder of Infochimps, Flip Kromer will draw from his experiences as a teacher and his vast programming and data experience to share lessons learned in building a team of smart, enthusiastic hires.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Andrew Odewahn (O'Reilly Media),
Carol McCall (Tenzing Health),
David Van Sickle (Asthmapolis),
Jim Golden (Accenture),
Indu Subaiya (Health 2.0)
Moderated by: Andrew Odewahn
Average rating:
(2.91, 11 ratings)
Information is changing healthcare forever. From the study of epidemics, to machine learning that can improve diagnosis, to the sequencing of the human genome, we're doing the math of life itself.
This panel of practitioners will show us what they're doing in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and genomics, and how it will change the way we discover, treat, and eliminate disease.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Pete Soderling (Stratus Security),
Pete Forde (BuzzData)
Average rating:
(4.00, 8 ratings)
The state of open data today is a real mess. It's very difficult to find the data you need and be confident that it's timely and accurate. There is a growing list of companies now vying to become the key destinations for people to gather around new datasets and be excited together. What projects, partnerships and even ventures would be created if there was a marketplace for data?
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Davin Potts (Pervasive)
Average rating:
(2.70, 10 ratings)
This session explores how to get more done, faster with high-performance Map/Reduce and expand the universe of Hadoop possibilities with tools to speed and simplify development and deployment of analytic applications.
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3:10pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Ballroom ABCD
Afternoon Break: Sponsored by EnterpriseDB
(1h)
4:10pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Joseph Turian (Workday)
Average rating:
(4.35, 23 ratings)
Certain recent academic developments in large data have immediate and sweeping applications in industry. They offer forward-thinking businesses the opportunity to achieve technical competitive advantages. However, these little-known techniques have not been discussed outside academia–until now. What if you knew about important new large data techniques that your competition don't yet know about?
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Samy Bengio (Google),
Jonathan Seidman (Orbitz Worldwide),
Robert Lancaster (Orbitz Worldwide),
Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries)
Average rating:
(3.12, 8 ratings)
Can machines help us make better decisions? In this panel, real-world practitioners from the travel, finance, and energy industry give us an inside look at how they're applying machine learning to their industries, oprimizing the use of resources and helping with decision support.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Roman Stanek (GoodData),
Pete Warden (TensorFlow),
Alon Halevy (Google)
Moderated by: Alistair Croll
Average rating:
(3.33, 9 ratings)
"Many hands make light work", as the saying goes. That's true when thousands of people can collaborate on a data set. In this session, we'll look at collective interfaces that allow many distributed users to examine and share data with one another, and how that's changing traditional desktop visualization tools.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Sudhir Hasbe (Microsoft),
Bruno Aziza (Microsoft)
Windows Azure Marketplace includes data, imagery, and real-time web services from leading commercial data providers and authoritative public data sources. Customers have access to datasets such as demographic, environmental, financial, retail, weather and sports.
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5:00pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Patrick Chanezon (Docker),
Ryan Boyd (Google)
Average rating:
(3.45, 11 ratings)
Many of the tools Google created to store, query, analyze, visualize data are exposed to external developers. This talk will give you an overview of Google services for Data Crunchers: Google Storage for developers, BigQuery, Machine Learning API, App Engine, Visualization API.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Kenneth Cukier (The Economist),
Adam Hurwitz (Happtique),
Jinesh Varia (Amazon Web Services),
Mario Veiga Pereira (PSR)
Average rating:
(2.50, 4 ratings)
Join practitioners from a range of industries to learn how they're putting new tools and massive data sets to work. We'll hear how music, geophysics, and the legal system are all changing by putting huge, rich information into the hands of business.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Joshua Martell (Wolfram|Alpha)
Average rating:
(1.64, 11 ratings)
The world's available scientific and factual data is growing at an alarming pace, but how do we use all this information? How do we incorporate it into our decision making process? Joshua Martell, will give an inside look into how Wolfram|Alpha works, what it takes to make data "computable", understand user input, and present meaningful results.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Johann Schleier-Smith (Tagged.com)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Social media websites are producing ginormous amounts of data and creating a massive demand for insight related to users, how they engage with features, where they are coming from, why they are visiting, what excites them, and so forth.
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5:40pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Ballroom ABCD
Join us in the Sponsor Pavilion immediately following sessions on Wednesday, February 2. Have a drink and some delectable nibbles, network with other Strata attendees, and visit our Sponsors who are at the leading edge of the data conversation.
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6:45pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Location: Mission CIty Ballroom Foyer
As part of Strata, we'll be holding a Science Fair. It's a place to demonstrate cutting-edge technologies and cool toys — the more hands-on, the better. Whether it's software that breaks the rules of computing, a compelling new interface, or a prototype that pushes the envelope, we want to see it.
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7:45pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Benoit Sigoure (StumbleUpon, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
OpenTSDB is an open-source, distributed time series database designed to monitor large clusters of commodity machines at an unprecedented level of granularity. OpenTSDB allows operation teams to keep track of all the metrics exposed by operating systems, applications and network equipment, and makes the data easily accessible.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Rod Cope (OpenLogic, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.83, 12 ratings)
Hadoop and HBase make it easy to store terabytes of data, but how do you scale your search mechanism to sift through these mountains of bits and retrieve large result sets in a matter of milliseconds? Careful use of the Solr search server, based on Lucene, made these requirements come to life in our production environment. Come learn how we query terabytes of data in a highly available system.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Sam Shah (LinkedIn)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
How do you go about building a product around data using Hadoop?
This talk will present how LinkedIn builds and maintains such
features as People You May Know. We will present our architecture
for doing so (open-sourced) as well as knowledge we've gained in
the process.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Matthew Russell (Digital Reasoning Systems)
Average rating:
(3.50, 6 ratings)
This talk demonstrates how an eclectic blend of storage, analysis, and visualization techniques can be used to gain a lot of serious insight from Twitter data, but also to answer fun quesions such as "What does Justin Bieber and the Tea Party have (and not have) in common?"
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8:35pm
Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Doug Cutting (Cloudera)
Average rating:
(3.50, 8 ratings)
Apache Avro provides an expressive, efficient standard for representing large data sets. Avro data is programming-language neutral and MapReduce-friendly. Hopefully it can replace gzipped CSV-like formats as a dominant format for data.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Theo Schlossnagle (Circonus)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
With thousands of datapoints per second from nodes around the world, how can you tell when something isn't right? The bottom line is: it's hard, but with the right tools it is achievable.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Isabel Drost (Apache Software Foundation/ Nokia Gate 5 GmbH)
Average rating:
(2.75, 12 ratings)
With growing amounts of digital data at the fingertips of software developers the need for a scalable, easy to use framework is tremendous. This talk introduces Apache Mahout - a project with the goal of implementing scalable machine learning algorithms for the masses.
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Wednesday, 02/02/2011
Justin Sheehy (Basho Technologies)
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Riak Core is a general implementation of a distributed systems model,
enabling you to build a customized, scalable, highly-available
distributed system without too huge an investment. Justin will explain
that model, its history, and how it can be used to build new data
processing systems.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
8:45am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Alistair Croll (Solve For Interesting),
Edd Wilder-James (Silicon Valley Data Science)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
Alistair Croll and Edd Dumbill welcome you back to Strata.
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8:50am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Simon Rogers (Guardian)
Average rating:
(4.42, 36 ratings)
90,000 items on Afghanistan, 291,000 on Iraq - and another 251,000 cables. Managing the Wikileaks release is just one of the huge data journalism projects the Guardian's data team has embarked on. This talk will look at how journalists can make sense of data, get stories out of it and our role in supplying open data to the world.
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9:00am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Alistair Croll (Solve For Interesting),
Toby Segaran (Google),
Amber Case (Esri),
Bradford Cross (Flightcaster)
Moderated by: Alistair Croll
Average rating:
(2.64, 33 ratings)
The convergence of big, open data, ubicomp, and new interfaces will change the way humans work, play, learn, and love. It's a slow transformation that happens one tweet, one blog, and one game at a time -- but it's also an inexorable road towards the singularity.
In this panel discussion, we'll look beyond the bytes and algorithms to think about humanity awash in a sea of information.
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9:15am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Ed Boyajian (EnterpriseDB)
Average rating:
(1.35, 34 ratings)
Companies must choose to spend their money and time on the right software initiatives. With exploding volumes of critical data, getting new insight and mastery over business operations demands new investments in BI at multiple levels. Ed will show a proven path for how to avoid exorbitant database software fees and shift that spend to be used in areas like BI where you can realize a stronger ROI.
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9:25am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Barry Devlin (9sight Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.33, 27 ratings)
For more than 20 years now, data warehousing has put manners on unruly enterprise data. Yet, physics tells us that disorder inexorably increases unless we endlessly fight it. As information volumes and types explode into chaos, is it time to declare the warehouse dead? Or we could move from classical to quantum physics and create a new information architecture. It’s time to make some new choices…
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9:35am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
DJ Patil (White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
Average rating:
(4.50, 38 ratings)
Details coming soon.
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9:45am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Scott Yara (Greenplum, a division of EMC)
Average rating:
(4.07, 30 ratings)
A defining characteristic of modern life is the incredible proliferation of digital information. The Economist estimates that the amount of information created each year is growing at a 60% compounded rate. According to the Harvard Business Review, we humans generated more data last year than in all of previous human history.
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9:55am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City Ballroom
Please note:
This and all other keynotes will be live streamed and recorded.
Carol McCall (Tenzing Health)
Average rating:
(4.14, 29 ratings)
In 2001, the Institutes of Medicine declared that “between the care we have and the care we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm,” yet nothing’s really changed. Healthcare remains one of the most richly endowed yet poorly equipped knowledge industries anywhere. Using real world examples, we’ll see how BIG DATA may be just what the doctor ordered, but only if we pick the right problems.
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10:10am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Ballroom ABCD
Morning Break
(30m)
10:40am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Pablo Castro (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(4.58, 12 ratings)
Sharing data on the Web comes with a tough trade-off between minimalism and enabling creative new scenarios. This session will explore Web APIs that focus on exposing data and let clients decide how to use it. We'll share our experiences while designing the Open Data Protocol (odata.org), what we found to be great and terrible ideas and what we hear from folks running OData Web APIs.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Tim Guleri (Sierra Ventures),
Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures),
Paul Kedrosky (Kauffman Foundation),
Ping Li (Accel Partners)
Average rating:
(2.36, 14 ratings)
The ability to collect, crunch, act upon, and share huge amounts of data disrupts nearly every industry, tearing down barriers to entry and creating entirely new businesses.
This panel of investors will discuss where they see the opportunities in the Big Data industry, and how they think about the value of new ventures in the space.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb),
Simon Rogers (Guardian),
Jer Thorp (The New York Times)
Moderated by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
Average rating:
(4.55, 11 ratings)
After Kennedy, you couldn't win an election without TV. After Obama, it was social media. But tomorrow's citizen gets their information from visualizations.
In this panel, three acclaimed designers show how they apply visualization to big data, making complex, controversial topics easy to understand and explore.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Stephen Sorkin (Splunk),
Narayan Bharadwaj (ClearStory Data)
Average rating:
(1.67, 3 ratings)
From customer behaviors & usage statistics to security postures & operational analytics, Splunk's ability to make sense of all types of machine data, structured or unstructured, and mash it up w/ other business data provides complete real-time visibility & operational intelligence. This tutorial demos a new approach for analyzing your organization's petabytes of data to derive real-time insights.
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11:30am
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Kevin Weil (Twitter, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.82, 17 ratings)
Most analytics systems rely on large offline computations, which means results come in hours or days behind. Twitter is all about realtime, but with over 160 million users producing over 90 million tweets per day, we need realtime analytics that scaled horizontally. This talk discusses the development of that infrastructure, as well as the products we are beginning to build on top of it.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Ben Gimpert (Altos Research),
Margaret Francis (Exact Target/ CoTweet),
Ryan Strynatka (Radian6),
Josh Merchant (Lymbix)
Moderated by: Alistair Croll
Average rating:
(2.42, 12 ratings)
Today's web analyst has moved far beyond funnels and visitors. Automated systems decide who gets what content, and language parsing tries to distill sentiment from millions of online interactions.
This panel will look at where web analytics is headed, and how new algorithms and approaches are yielding fresh insights into online commerce.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Alexander Howard (O'Reilly Media),
Peter Clark (Code 42 Software, Inc),
Steve Midgley (US Department of Education)
Average rating:
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Open access to information promises to connect citizens to their representatives, improving government transparency and helping educators transform the classroom.
In this real-world panel, practitioners in government and the public sector will give us a glimpse into how data and new interfaces are transforming how we teach and govern.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Eric Day (craigslist)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
The OpenStack project was launched last summer by Rackspace, NASA, and a number of other cloud technology leaders in an effort to build a fully-open cloud computing platform. It is a collection of scalable, standards-based projects currently consisting of OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage. This session will introduce the projects and describe how they can help manage your data.
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12:10pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mezzanine
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoF topics are entirely up to you. Thursday's Lunchtime BoF sessions will happen on the hotel side of the Hyatt Regency, Mezzanine Level.
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1:40pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Benjamin Black (Boundary)
Average rating:
(4.18, 17 ratings)
The rise of sensor network data and the expectation for low latency query responses combine to obsolete available databases and storage platforms. We have built a platform for web-scale OLAP and in this talk I will cover how we made our infrastructure capable of real-time update and query performance over hundreds of terabytes of multidimensional data.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Virginia Carlson (Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC))
Average rating:
(3.75, 8 ratings)
Data integration and viz technology have given rise to an appetite for government data–the Gov 2.0 movement. Do government agencies have good data? Sort of: I believe that an understanding of data limitations has gotten short shrift in the drive to develop the next app. I'll discuss why a knowledge of the complexities of government data is crucial to building quality decision-making tools.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Stephen Guerin (Santa Fe Complex)
Average rating:
(3.67, 9 ratings)
Live demonstration of ambient computing using projector-camera pairs to scan the room and place interactive simulations into the space. All surfaces are rendered interactive. We will demonstrate a 3D sandtable for firefighter training and STEM education where the 3D sand becomes and interactive surface.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Vineet Tyagi (Impetus Technologies)
Average rating:
(2.00, 7 ratings)
Organizations today possess massive data - in tera- and petabytes - that
needs to be effectively collected, stored and processed. Hadoop is a cost
effective option that helps manage this big data. To derive real returns
from these big data systems, one needs to extract useful insights and
business intelligence.
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2:30pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Dylan Field (Brown University),
Lucian Lita (Intuit),
Jud Valeski (Gnip),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.10, 10 ratings)
To many people, Big Data means Open Data: social graphs, voting records, weather patterns, and more. But who owns data? Most of our laws were written for atoms, not bits; they're woefully out of date in an information age. When you share data, does it become more or less valuable? If someone adds to your data, is it still yours? This panel will tackle the gray area of data ownership.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Jon Bruner (O'Reilly Media)
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
In a first, Forbes presented all federal campaign contributions by America’s wealthiest people in our September 2010 online edition of the Forbes 400. We combined human effort and homegrown database code to sort through 6 million political donations and find the 20,000 that came from America’s richest people.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Creve Maples, Ph.D. (Event Horizon)
Average rating:
(4.29, 21 ratings)
We will discuss the impact of the information explosion, the effectiveness of current technological directions, and explore the success that new perception-based, human-computer interfaces provide in analyzing and understanding complex data. Real examples will be used to illustrate that effective man-machine environments are essential in productively dealing with multi-dimensional information.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mission City B4
Ben Werther (DataStax (formerly Riptano))
Average rating:
(3.00, 4 ratings)
If you are a leading enterprise or web company, then two things are almost certainly true. Data is the lifeblood of your business. And you face an ever-increasing need to scale your applications and data services.
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3:10pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Ballroom ABCD
Afternoon Break: Sponsored by EMC
(1h)
4:10pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Julie Steele (Silicon Valley Data Science),
Ian White (Urban Mapping, Inc),
Peter Marney (Thomson Reuters),
Moe Khosravy (Microsoft),
Dennis Yang (Infochimps)
Moderated by: Julie Steele
Average rating:
(3.56, 9 ratings)
Does information really want to be free? While the Internet is full of open data, there's plenty of data companies are willing to pay handsomely for -- particularly if it's timely and well aggregated.
As a result, data marketplaces are a burgeoning business. This panel will look at the market for data, and where it's headed.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Brian Wilson (Thomson Reuters)
Average rating:
(2.67, 3 ratings)
New technologies are driving a new era of global collaboration among scientists and researchers. Digital scholarship, the ability to create, collect, publish and collaborate in new digital mediums, is driving the exponential growth of data related to scholarly research. This talk will highlight evolving strategies used to appraise and predict success of institutions and researchers.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
J.J. Toothman (NASA Ames Research Center)
Average rating:
(3.23, 13 ratings)
Artistic visualizations and infographics tell the stories of rich data in unique, compelling ways and synthesize datasets in ways that allow them to be interpreted, absorbed, and experienced in ways beyond the spreadsheet, pie chart, and bar graph.
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5:00pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Drew Conway (Alluvium),
Christopher Ahlberg (Recorded Future),
Robert McGrew (Palantir Technologies),
Rion Snow (Twitter)
Moderated by: Drew Conway
Average rating:
(4.00, 13 ratings)
Data doesn't just show us the past—it can help predict the future. Several new firms harvest massive amounts of open data, trying to anticipate everything the right ad placement to the next terrorist attack. In this session, we bring together the founders of these firms to discuss the technology—and ethics—of looking into the future.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Nicholas Yee (PARC),
Nic Ducheneaut (PARC)
Average rating:
(4.33, 3 ratings)
Virtual worlds are a goldmine of untapped insights, even for predicting physical behaviors. Not only will we share PARC findings and methods developed to extract key data from online games, but more importantly, we'll discuss how social scientists converted and processed raw behavioral metrics into meaningful psychological variables that can be applied to a broad spectrum of business applications.
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Thursday, 02/03/2011
Sunita Shenoy (Intel)
Average rating:
(1.50, 2 ratings)
Ram Peddibhotla, a Director from Intel’s Software and Services Group, will discuss how the future of mobile involves ubiquity across multiple hardware platforms. Specifically, Ram will discuss how open source software will shape the next generation of computing devices, improving compatibility.
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6:00pm
Thursday, 02/03/2011
Location: Mezzanine
Join OpenStack contributors, users, and backers immediately after Strata ends - to celebrate the second release of the fastest-growing open source cloud platform, code-named Bexar. There will be a community Meetup with speakers from 6:00 - 7:00 pm, followed by an open bar from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
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