Big Data Tech 2016: Grid

Sessions are categorized to help you find the technical level you are looking for. Mild sessions are less technical, while spicy sessions are very technical.

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Auditorium (Fine Arts F2265)	Garden Room (1st floor)	Lab (2nd floor)	P0806 (1st floor)	P0808 (1st floor)	P0838 (1st floor)	P1808 (2nd floor)	P1838 (second floor)	Room K1450 (2nd floor)	TBA

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Conference Kickoff and Keynote 9:00am - 9:45am

The Journey to a Modern Data-to-... 10:00am - 10:30am

Enabling Big Data Research at the Minnesota Supe... 10:45am - 11:30am

Unlocking the True Value of Hadoop with Open Dat... 11:45am - 12:30pm

Market Competitiveness Scoring 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Introduction to Scala and Spark 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Data Drives Change. Change Drive... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Using Our Brain to Understand Learning 3:45pm - 4:30pm

Free your Data (and your Analysts): The Keys to... 9:00am - 9:45am

A Bayesian Approach to Predictiv... 10:00am - 10:30am

Data Science is Getting Easier…Maybe? 10:45am - 11:30am

Open Data Science and the Python... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Lunch with Data Science Teachers... 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Data Analysis Using Spark and Cl... 1:15pm - 1:45pm

How AoT is Monetizing IoT 2:00pm - 2:45pm

The Benefits of Spherical Cows (... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Open Lightning Talks 3:45pm - 4:30pm

HDFS/Hadoop Training 9:00am - 10:30am

Spark Training 10:45am - 12:15pm

Building A Stream Data Platform For Everyone: Ap... 9:00am - 9:45am

High Volume Streaming Data: How... 10:00am - 10:30am

Learning from History's Largest Source of Knowle... 10:45am - 11:30am

Making Anyone a Hadoop User: Ful... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Analytics for Impatient People 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Text Convolution Neural Network... 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Fighting Crime with SPSS Modeler and the Weather... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Ensembles and Hyperparameter Opt... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Counting People With a Camera and Computer Numbe... 3:45pm - 4:30pm

BASH Through the Barriers: Moderating the Clinic... 9:00am - 9:45am

Data Warehousing the Easy Way wi... 10:00am - 10:30am

Function Over Framework: Mapreduce, Tez and Spar... 10:45am - 11:30am

Taming the Elephant: A General M... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Connected Cars, Gaming, and Oil... 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Master Data - The Foundation to... 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Using Streaming Technology to Enable Real-time A... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Neural Networks for Newbies 3:00pm - 3:30pm

R Studio Server on Amazon EMR 10:00am - 10:30am

Graph Database with Cassandra 10:45am - 11:30am

AOL's High Throughput Big Data E... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Data Wrangling on Hadoop – Overc... 1:15pm - 1:45pm

Developing Fast and Scalable Customer Intelligen... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Driving Data Initiatives (Even w... 10:00am - 10:30am

Exploratory Data Analysis and Tag Identification... 10:45am - 11:30am

Turning more than 80 Million Row... 11:45am - 12:15pm

Lunch with Job Seekers and Hirin... 12:30pm - 1:00pm

Python Training -- Open Data Science with Anaconda: A Dozen of the Top Python Libraries in 90 Mi... 1:15pm - 2:45pm

Python Training -- Open Data Science with Anaconda: A Dozen of the Top Python Libraries in 90 Mi... 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Start with a Question 10:00am - 10:30am

Big Data, Big Event: The past and future of Minn... 10:45am - 11:30am

Detecting Bad Data with Zeppelin 11:45am - 12:15pm

Watson Analytics: Your Data Scientist in a Box 10:45am - 1:45pm

Free LinkedIn Portraits 9:00am - 12:00pm

Networking Social 4:30pm - 5:00pm