Sessions at Strata 2011 about Pig

Tuesday 1st February 2011

• How to Develop Big Data Applications for Hadoop

  by Abe Taha, Shevek, Ken Krugler and Chris K Wensel

  This tutorial will explain MapReduce and how to develop big data applications in Java and high level languages such as Pig and Hive SQL. Using examples it will cover how to prototype, debug, monitor, test and optimize big data applications for Hadoop. Attendees will get hands-on instruction and will leave with a solid understanding of how to analyze data on Hadoop clusters and practical examples.

  http://strataconf.com/strata2011...

  • Analytics
  • Hadoop
  • Hive
  • Java
  • map/reduce
  • Pig
  • SQL

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 1st February

  Coverage slide deck note

Wednesday 2nd February 2011

• Distilling Data Exhaust: How to Surface Insights and Build Products

  by Peter Skomoroch

  Learn how to leverage data exhaust, the digital byproduct of our online activities, to solve problems and discover insights about the world around you. We will walk through a real world example which combines several datasets and statistical techniques to discover insights and make predictions about attendees at O'Reilly Strata.

  http://strataconf.com/strata2011...

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Hadoop
  • Machine Learning
  • NoSQL
  • Pig
  • Python
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Statistics

  At 10:40am to 11:20am, Wednesday 2nd February