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• Big Data for Everyone (No Data Scientists Required)

  by ɹǝɯoɹʞ (dılɟ) dılıɥd, Steve Watt, Eric Sammer, Matt Pfeil and Stu Hood

  Big Data solutions, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Cassandra, are growing up and are in the process of moving out of a grassroots movement to widespread adoption. Unfortunately, the majority of the technical expertise still lies in the hands of the open source project contributors and most solutions are tackled from the bottom up, starting with the technical problems. The collateral that is presently available is largely from the social media giants that tout solutions built using 10,000 node clusters that process petabytes of data a day. The reality? The average person just cannot relate or intuitively draw parallels to their own business problems.

  While Big Data solutions are worthwhile far before you reach petabyte scale data, just getting started can be a challenge in itself. New open source projects are being regularly released that tackle a variety of issues related to Big Data, some of which are just slightly different to existing technologies. Just how does one navigate the plethora of technologies to design workable solutions to business problems? What if you only have gigabytes or terabytes of "medium" data on a small cluster? This panel features Solution Architects from a variety of key companies in the Big Data space which will provide deep dive technical discussions on real solutions we've employed for our customers, across a variety of industries, starting with the business problems.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • Big Data
  • Cassandra
  • Data
  • Hadoop
  • Open Data

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Monday 14th March

  In Town Lake Ballroom, Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin-Town Lake

  Coverage slide deck

• Our Media: Building An API For Public Media

  by Kavita Pillay, John Bracken, Jake Shapiro, Kinsey Wilson and Robert Bole

  Open APIs are sweeping through public media, just like the rest of the world, but folks at NPR, PBS and others are thinking even bigger. Public media is in an unprecedented project to build an open API called the Public Media Platform (PMP) that will help developers create applications that bring personalized public media content to new platforms. Come learn from the leaders of the PMP on how this project is rolling out, where it is headed and how it can benefit you. We will be discussing how public media is creating the right technology layer, as well as balancing business rules to build new opportunities for our media to be For, By and Of the People.

  LEVEL: Intermediate

  • API
  • Data
  • Open Data
  • Public Media
  • Web APIs

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Monday 14th March

  In Creekside, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol