Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland and the Return of the Big Data Jedi

The 12th’s return by HUG Ireland in association with Oracle... A September Special for all Big Data lovers…

Whilst the team at HUG Ireland took an event moratorium in August, we have not wasted a minute in setting up a cracking Autumn 2016 schedule for our members, which forms Dublin’s premiere technical Big Data community. November and October already have confirmed speakers covering areas of Data Science and Data Pipelines that should not be missed by one and all!

We have also been busy with the team at Oracle to bring you a great lineout for September 12th at the Morrison Hotel on Ormond Quay from 6pm. Two quality speakers are speaking on the evening on The Future of Analytics, Oracle Big Data SQL and The Three I"s of Big Data with a bar on premises, so we can all catch up with each other on site on what’s new; before and after the quality presentations by Mark Rittman, CTO of Rittman Mead and Ian Sharp, Director of Data Science with Oracle UK.

So, some background on our speakers:

Mark is CTO and co-founder at Rittman Mead, an Oracle (and more recently, Cloudera) Partner specialising in BI, big data and data warehousing implementations, training and support. Mark is an Oracle ACE Director, author of two Oracle Press books and leads Rittman Mead's customer projects around Hadoop, cloud and machine learning.

Ian is a Data Scientist at Oracle with over 15 experience helping customers deliver insight and innovation around business intelligence, Data Warehousing and Big Data. He has worked across industries with organisations such as Worldpay, Sky, NHS, BT, HSBC, AVIVA, the NHS, Bord Gais and the Discovery Channel.

The agenda for the evening from 6pm looks like this:

The Future of Analytics, Data Integration and Data Driven Applications on Big Data Platforms by Mark Rittman, CTO of Rittman Mead

Up until now thought of as a cheap storage offloading layer for more capable relational data warehouses and BI tools, Hadoop is fast maturing into the default platform for all analytic and data integration workloads. In this session we'll look at how technologies such as Apache Arrow, Apache Kudu and Apache Drill will bring in-memory, column-store BI functionality to Hadoop but extend that to cover flexible-schema data held in data lakes and NoSQL databases; we'll see how Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and real-time streaming functionality coming to vendor ETL tools such as Oracle Data Integrator will enable real-time loading and integration with traditional relational databases; and finally we'll see how a new generation of e-commerce, logistics and customer applications will take advantage of the machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities provided by Hadoop to add smarts and intelligence to day-to-day operational applications.

Using Oracle Big Data SQL to add Hadoop + NoSQL to your Oracle Data warehouse by Mark Rittman, CTO of Rittman Mead

Oracle Big Data SQL 3.0 extends the Oracle SQL dialect, security framework and advanced analytics capabilities of the Oracle database to big data platforms, initially just for Oracle Big Data Appliance but now made available for commodity Cloudera and Hortonworks clusters. Complementing basic Apache Hive but competing with other next-generation SQL-on-Hadoop solutions such as Impala, Presto and Drill, Oracle Big Data SQL lets you work with big data sources as if they were another set of external tables – and can bring Exadata style query offloading to this significantly lower-cost platform. In this session we’ll explore at a technical level how Big Data SQL works (including the key limitations and “gotchas”), see how features such as storage indexes and storage handlers introduced with the 2.0 release significantly improve what the product can do, how statistical and advanced analytics features in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition can also be used on Hadoop sources, understand at a high-level what bringing Oracle security Hadoop means – and see if it’s really now possible to use Big Data SQL without the previous Exadata and BDA prerequisites.  

The Three I"s of Big Data, Insight, Innovation and Identify by Ian Sharp,  Lead Data Scientist with Oracle UK

Insight and innovation aside, Big Data Social Media is increasingly about Identity; who we are, who we aspire to be, and in the case of Fraud and Theft, who we pretend to be. Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning have emerged as the prime technologies and disciplines to distill nuances and value around these identities. This presentation discusses the challenges and opportunities of big data analytics against polyglot sources, the evolution of new languages and frameworks such as R, Python, SciKit Learn and Zeppelin and the operational settings  around wider BI consumption, Streams and Apps APIs.  Using leading edge reference cases, we will explore  the stories and focus on the challenges for integration, governance and stability faced  in their  transition from Hadoop driven Innovation  to Mainstream business success. Finally we will highlight  some up and coming trends for the industry to watch

So, RSVP today and check out our twitter hashtag at #HUGIreland for the latest from our community.  Looking forward to seeing you all on the 12th!

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Morrison Location:

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Event Page:

http://www.meetup.com/hadoop-user-group-ireland/

Speaker Profiles:

Ian:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-sharp-03a3835?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=-usr&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A15847534%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-3-3%2CtarId%3A1471963329454%2Ctas%3Aian%20sharp

https://www.oracle.com/uk/index.html

Mark:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrittman?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=3wfo&locale=en_US&srchid=2114422741471963406937&srchindex=1&srchtotal=3&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2114422741471963406937%2CVSRPtargetId%3A2087871%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH

http://www.rittmanmead.com/

Meetup.com - An evolution in community

Successful networking from the Country Club to Meetup.com is about community. Get the most out of yours today…

There is no doubt that despite the luxury branding of country clubs, the real value of membership lies in the networks you build there. Such networking has been going on since the dawn of time. Technology today has produced a great platform for networking called meetup.com which brings such formality to cyberspace with the ability to join like minded people in your area, which can be just about anything you can think of.

Like all groups, meetup.com groups are about the alignment of like minded people interested in a singular pursuit in a formal setting that society recognises and credits as such. The status associated with such groups is considerable IF that group gains credit and respect for masterful accomplishments. With formal networking effectively democratised via meetup.com, the skills of networking at the “County Club” once again come into focus.

Before starting out to network on meetup.com, be sure of what you want from it as much as what you are prepared to give to it. The benefits are different based on what brings people to the group. If you have not thought out what the appeal and return is for you, then you will not gain value from it. Some core motives for networking I’ve seen thus far are as follows:

Sharing - Passion for a topic is a huge driver in successful networks and indeed in successful groups. The will to share expertise, knowledge and understanding is a core virtue of the successful networker who is there to share.

Personal Brand - Those who are building their personal brand for job seeking purposes or business development purposes will do well also with a well prepared skill set they are willing to share on the networking circuit. The return comes in the form of gaining access to relevant like minded professionals, credibility for their skills and awareness of their offering. In essence, those who have the intention to share their personal brand in their hunt for a new job or new business will do well ONCE they share their business brand and establish a reputation as a credible professional first.

Professional Development - Those who look to stay current do well from networking, getting to know professional peers along with understanding the movers and shakers. Getting known per the above point is a definite benefit to anybody’s career. Get known, get accepted and get respected for your contributions.

When networking, it’s always good to be:

• Yourself, don’t pretend to be someone you are not. Those you seek to impress will see through any charade and penalise you for such an effort.
• Knowledgeable, if you have expertise and knowledge in an area, share it, give people useful takeaways from your understanding of a topic
• A good listener, those who listen more then they talk will come across as more credible, likeable and interesting.
• A concise yet honest speaker, if possible share your understanding in a concise manner
• Confident, don’t be afraid to introduce yourself around and work the room. Business cards are a good aid for this and if you don’t know something, don’t be afraid to admit it confidently. People like honest professionals, not pretend “experts.”
• Follow up, if you make a good connection at an event, connect via LinkedIn and Twitter (& maybe Google+). Don’t wait for them to reach out if you have something to share with and/or to say to them. Also, if you don’t engage them in follow up conversation, just making the social media connections is enough for now but be sure to chat with them for a few minutes at the next face to face event. Great professional relationships are built iteratively.

On attending meetups, presenter and group reputations are built mainly on the content of presentations so be sure you are getting some good “take away” understandings that you didn’t have before it. Chat with other members on what they thought of the meetup and what take aways they got from it? If folks are laden with happiness and insights then that meetup is a good one. If not, then the inverse applies.

The modernisation of an age old group skill called networking is viable today because networking still underpins real group relationships and is still the way to go for sharing of knowledge, expertise and developing your own career through learning/networking with like minded peers. If you are at a professional or intellectual crossroads, be sure to use networking as part of your action plan to get the out of your resulting direction. With it, your chances of success are good indeed!

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http://www.meetup.com/