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Big Data Tech 2016

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9:00am CDT

Building A Stream Data Platform For Everyone: Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform P0806 (1st floor)Benjamin Ortega Free your Data (and your Analysts): The Keys to Becoming an Analytics-Driven Organization Garden Room (1st floor)Dirk DeRoos BASH Through the Barriers: Moderating the Clinical Research and Computational Divide P0808 (1st floor)Margaret Mahan Conference Kickoff and Keynote Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)SriSatish Ambati HDFS/Hadoop Training Lab (2nd floor)Brock Noland Free LinkedIn Portraits TBA

10:00am CDT

R Studio Server on Amazon EMR P0838 (1st floor)Chad Dvoracek High Volume Streaming Data: How Amazon Web Services is Changing Our Approach P0806 (1st floor)Michael Krouze A Bayesian Approach to Predictive Pricing Garden Room (1st floor)Josh Cutler Data Warehousing the Easy Way with AWS Redshift P0808 (1st floor)Eric Ness Driving Data Initiatives (Even when you're not in charge) P1808 (2nd floor)Ryan Sougstad Start with a Question P1838 (second floor)Drew Barwis The Journey to a Modern Data-to-Insight Pipeline Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Nenshad Bardoliwalla

10:45am CDT

Big Data, Big Event: The past and future of MinneAnalytics P1838 (second floor) Data Science is Getting Easier…Maybe? Garden Room (1st floor)Ryan Swanstrom Graph Database with Cassandra P0838 (1st floor)Brandon Veber Learning from History's Largest Source of Knowledge: The Promise and Pitfalls of Mining Wikipedia P0806 (1st floor)Shilad Sen Function Over Framework: Mapreduce, Tez and Spark - How to Select What Jobs to Run Where P0808 (1st floor)Adam Gugliciello Enabling Big Data Research at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Jeff McDonald MSI Exploratory Data Analysis and Tag Identification with LDA model for Stack Overflow Data P1808 (2nd floor)Sona Maniyan • Ramesh Ramanujam Spark Training Lab (2nd floor)Brock Noland Watson Analytics: Your Data Scientist in a Box Room K1450 (2nd floor)Nick Acosta • Zach Taylor

11:45am CDT

Detecting Bad Data with Zeppelin P1838 (second floor)Frank Schilder • Interana AOL's High Throughput Big Data Ecosystem P0838 (1st floor)Benjamin Jackson Open Data Science and the Python Ecosystems Garden Room (1st floor)Jean Marie Bertoncelli Making Anyone a Hadoop User: Full-text Search with Apache Solr and Hadoop Made Easy P0806 (1st floor)Karl Lacher • Mac Noland Taming the Elephant: A General Mills Tale P0808 (1st floor)Liz Carroll-Anderson Turning more than 80 Million Rows of Data Into Easy-to-use Insights with Spotfire, Python & SQL Server P1808 (2nd floor)Shihe Ma, MS, MBA Unlocking the True Value of Hadoop with Open Data Science Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Kristopher Overholt

12:30pm CDT

Analytics for Impatient People P0806 (1st floor)Ryan Hedlund • Joe Kelleher Connected Cars, Gaming, and Oil Rigs - A Fast Connected World with the Cassandra Database P0808 (1st floor)Mitch Henderson Lunch with Data Science Teachers and Learners Garden Room (1st floor) Lunch with Job Seekers and Hiring Managers P1808 (2nd floor)

1:15pm CDT

Data Wrangling on Hadoop – Overcoming Enterprise Challenges P0838 (1st floor)Sean Kandel Market Competitiveness Scoring Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Lisa Schlosser Master Data - The Foundation to Big Data P0808 (1st floor)Kristine Rennaker Data Analysis Using Spark and Cloudera Impala Garden Room (1st floor)Kasaba Bharathi Text Convolution Neural Network (CNN) with TensorFlow & GPUs P0806 (1st floor)John Hudzina, PhD Python Training -- Open Data Science with Anaconda: A Dozen of the Top Python Libraries in 90 Minutes. P1808 (2nd floor)Ian Stokes-Rees

2:00pm CDT

Developing Fast and Scalable Customer Intelligence Solutions on AWS Redshift P0838 (1st floor)Jakub Jez Fighting Crime with SPSS Modeler and the Weather Channel Data P0806 (1st floor)Eric Lowry • Maciej Lazarewicz, PhD Using Streaming Technology to Enable Real-time Applications P0808 (1st floor)Marc Fabbo How AoT is Monetizing IoT Garden Room (1st floor)John Thuma Introduction to Scala and Spark Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Brad Rubin

3:00pm CDT

Data Drives Change. Change Drives Opportunity Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Amy O'Connor Neural Networks for Newbies P0808 (1st floor)Theo Kanning The Benefits of Spherical Cows (Hypothetical Modeling) Garden Room (1st floor)Scott Ernst Ensembles and Hyperparameter Optimizaton: Letting the Machines do the Learning P0806 (1st floor)Ravi Shanbhag Python Training -- Open Data Science with Anaconda: A Dozen of the Top Python Libraries in 90 Minutes P1808 (2nd floor)Ian Stokes-Rees

3:45pm CDT

Counting People With a Camera and Computer Number Tables: A Talk Using Only the 1000 Most Simple Words In Our Language P0806 (1st floor)Pat Delaney Open Lightning Talks Garden Room (1st floor) Using Our Brain to Understand Learning Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)Grant Goris

4:30pm CDT

Networking Social TBA