Tuesday
Arts & Crafts with AWS Glue Workshop
Presented by: Lydia White, James Zhang
Time: Tuesday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PMConstructing and administering a big data scale Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) pipeline can be expensive and complicated. Fortunately, Amazon Web Services (AWS) simplifies this with Glue and QuickSight services. Glue, a fully managed, serverless and cloud-optimized...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: PreCompilerLevel: Introductory and overviewWednesday
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Thursday
Making Faces: Image Reduction and Recognition
Presented by: Steve Crow
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMA 350px by 300px image contains 105,000 individual pixels. Comparing each pixel to tell whether or not two images are the same is not efficient. What if we could reduce the number of features, while still maintaining patterns and trends? What if we could perform this recognition by only comparing 25...
Room: Salon DTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewIntro to Machine Learning on the cheap and without a PhD in math: Overview
Presented by: Jim Wilson
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMMachine learning has traditionally required a command of advanced mathematics, years of university training, and expensive hardware to implement. Now with better open source tools and online resources it’s easier than ever to create your own robust neural networks. Be it image recognition,...
Room: CypressTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSupport Emoji 💁♀️ and Go Worldwide 🌐 with Unicode
Presented by: Joe Sewell
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMAs the world becomes more and more connected, the way people communicate becomes more and more important. A prominent example is emoji: those little icons that are popular in text messages 📱 and on social media 🤝. Proposals for new emoji will often make the news. But did you know that emoji...
Room: RosewoodTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewHOW TO HACK AN ELECTION
Presented by: Gary Short
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMThink your democracy is safe? Better think again. In this session I'll demonstrate the techniques that the 'black hat data scientists' use to get the result they want from any election or referenda. In this entertaining talk, I'll demonstrate techniques, both at the macro level - how to attack an...
Room: NileTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewLearning R through sports, or learning sports through R
Presented by: Mike Roznik
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMBig data has been a buzzword for years, but it’s only recently been hitting the world of professional sports. How do sports teams use this big data? Why with R! Together we’ll learn what kind of data they look for and how they present it. Along the way we’ll look at real world examples of R...
Room: Salon HTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFriday
Event processing without breaking production
Presented by: Nathan Zender
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMTransactional systems are built with the primary focus of processing many concurrent events, only keeping the current state of data. What if I told you there was a way to capture all the events that led to that current state? Capturing all events would allow for deeper analytics/machine learning,...
Room: OrangeTrack: ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview