Phoenix Data Conference – Featured Speaker of the Day. Today’s Featured Speaker is Nitin Motgi. Nitin is Founder and CTO of Cask, where he is responsible for developing the company’s long-term technology, driving company engineering initiatives and collaboration. Prior to Cask, Nitin was at Yahoo! working on a large-scale content optimization system externally known as C.O.R.E. He previously held senior engineering roles at Altera and FedEx. Title: The evolution of Hadoop & Rise of Data Applications Description: Since Google published its research paper on MapReduce in 2004 and 2006 when Hadoop was born within Yahoo to 2009 when Hadoop was open sourced, Hadoop has evolved from more than just HDFS & MapReduce to a platform with a large ecosystem of technologies that solves a wide variety of complex problems at scale. Join me as I discuss the history of Hadoop, including its challenges, application model, use cases, and the real…
Month: October 2014
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Phoenix Data Conference – Featured Speaker of the Day. The Phoenix Hadoop User Group is organizing an all day conference on Big Data on the 25th of October. Today’s Featured Speaker is Jothi Periasamy. Jothi Periasamy, a Chief Data Scientist at Harvard Innovation Lab (Harvard University). Jothi has deep “hands-on” subject matter expertise in big data, predictive analytics, in-memory analytics and cloud computing. Jothi has around 17 years of “end-to-end” data & analytics implementation experience, and his experience also includes project delivery, practice development, thought leadership and sales & pre-sales activities. He specializes in several industry processes including finance, point of sales, smart grids, and performance improvements. He focuses on creating opportunities and values through analytics, planning, forecasting, and profitability and cost management, activity based costing, and management/statutory reporting. Jothi will be talking about Experfy’s thought leadership, approach, methodology, and leading practices for big data and advance analytics. He will…