Hot on the conference circuit this year, we here at insideBIGDATA were pleased to be Qlik’s guest for their Qlik Qonnections 2016 conference in Orlando, Florida on May 1-4. We had a blast at this annual tech extravaganza that’s hosted by one of the industry’s most innovative leaders.
Field Report: GPU Technology Conference 2016
April 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
I was very pleased to attend the GPU Technology Conference 2016 as the guest of host company NVIDIA on April 4-7 in Silicon Valley. I was impressed enough with the experience that I wanted to write this Field Report to give readers an in-depth perspective for what I saw.
Spark Panel Discussion with Cloudera, MapR & Pivotal
October 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The panel discussion video below comes from the Los Angeles Spark Users Group. The talk fosters a lively discussion on Spark’s initial goals, where it came from and what the future holds for Spark. Many leading Big Data vendors are responding by introducing Spark’s capabilities into their architectures. The panel discussion is between the top Hadoop distribution vendors – Cloudera, MapR, and Pivotal.
Tableau Conference 2014 – A Field Report
September 15, 2014 by 1 Comment
I just returned from the annual Tableau Conference 2014 (affectionately referred to as TC14) and I’m data overload! The big event took place Sept. 8-11 in beautiful Seattle and I must confess that the experience really energized me.
Tableau Conference 2014
September 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
FIELD REPORT The 2014 edition of the Tableau Software’s annual conference (TC14) is taking place in Seattle this week, from September 8-12 and insideBIGDATA will be on hand for all the tech festivities. The big event is at the Washington State Convention Center with a sold-out crowd of over 5,500 customers and partners from around the […]
Making Hadoop Realtime
August 7, 2014 by 1 Comment
Last evening I had the pleasure of attending the latest installment of our local Los Angeles Big Data User Group where I am co-organizer. The featured speaker was Dr. William Bain, Founder & CEO of ScaleOut Software, a company providing distributed data grids for the enterprise. Bill’s talk was “Making Hadoop Realtime” where he discussed how in-memory data grids bring tremendous value to the Hadoop software stack.
The userR!2014 Conference in Review
July 7, 2014 by 1 Comment
FIELD REPORT Last week I attended the long-anticipated useR!2014 international conference at the UCLA campus, my alma mater. The four day event had something for everyone in attendance – all the brain cycles centered around the use of the R statistical environment. Since R is a primary tool for my work in data science and […]
The R User Conference 2014
June 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
I am really looking forward to attending my first useR! conference – coming to Los Angeles June 30-July 3. I’ll be at the big show to cover all the late breaking R news and report back to you all here. This annual conference jumps around the globe, alternating between the U.S. and Europe (last year’s conference was held in Spain). This year the conference will take place on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Big Data Camp 2014 in Review
June 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
It was Saturday, June 14 and I was up at the crack of dawn (which is quite an achievement for a late night data hacker like me) to get over to the Big Data Camp 2014 happening at the DirectTV campus in beautiful El Segundo, Calif. (actually a spartan industrial area just south of LAX). I was anticipating a great day of big data technology focusing on three advertised session tracks: Data Science, Hadoop, and NoSQL.
