Want to learn the important and pragmatic aspects of big data analytics?



Douglas Eadline will describe the big data and Hadoop landscape along with some of the fundamental changes in data processing.



And two people will leave with copies of "Hadoop 2 Quick-Start Guide" (pictured above). Make sure you RSVP to win!



There will be plenty of time for Q&A at the end.



Schedule



• 6:30 - Food / Networking

• 7:00 - Big Data, Hadoop, and All That

• 7:45 - Q&A

• 8:15 - Wrap Up



Big thanks to WeatherTrends for sponsoring the food for this meetup! WeatherTends builds year-ahead weather forecasting by week, a year out for 21 million grid points covering every ½ mile on Earth. Then they layer in retail historical data, define the weather relationship and project out category sales analyzing over 10,000 seasonal categories, equities and commodities.



As always, thanks to Ben Franklin for hosting the meetup!