In this video from The Next Web Conference Europe 2013, Ken Cukier, Data Editor at the Economist describes how Big Data hype should not deter us from bringing this phenomenon to its full potential to change the world.
Video: Why the Size of the Data Does Not Define Big Data
In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, John Hengeveld from Intel presents: Big Data Use Cases – The Size of the Data does not define Big Data.
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Apixio – Knowledge-driven Outcomes for Healthcare
In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Darren Schulte from Apixio presents: Knowledge-driven Outcomes for Healthcare.
Apixio delivers actionable insights from textual, scanned, and coded data for optimal risk management, population management, and revenue.”
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Video: The Big Data Paradigm Shift – Insight Through Automation
In this video from the 2013 HPC User Forum, Radhika Subramanian from Emcien presents: The Big Data Paradigm Shift – Insight Through Automation.
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Video: Massive I/O Requirements for the SKA Telescope
In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Bill Boas from Cray presents: Massive I/O Requirements for the SKA Telescope.
Processing the vast quantities of data produced by the SKA will require very high performance central supercomputers capable of 100 petaflops per second processing power. This is about 50 times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer in 2010 and equivalent to the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.
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Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Lustre with Brent Gorda
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses Lustre and LUG 2013 with Brent Gorda. Now part of Intel in their High Performance Data Division, Gorda was CEO of Whamcloud when the company was acquired last summer.
Gorda recently wrote a post about the rapid growth of the Lustre community, so we started our discussion there and learned a good deal more about the popular file system.
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Video: High Availability in Lustre
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, John Fragalla from Xyratex presents: High Availability in Lustre.
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Video: Real-Time Big Data Analytics from Deployment to Production
In this video from the Strata 2013 Conference, David Smith from Revolution Analytics describes the five stages of real-time analytics deployment, and the technologies supporting each stage, including Hadoop, R, and database warehousing systems. He also shares some best practices for setting up a the technology stack and processes for model deployment, based on some real-life case studies.
High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached
In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University presents: High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached.
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It’s Big Data Week Around the World
In case you weren’t aware of it, we are right in the middle of Big Data Week 2013. This is a global event featuring a series of community-led Big Data conferences, meetings, workshops, networking events and hackathons.
The event, which runs from April 22-28, has a somewhat British flavor, being produced by media 140 Worldwide headquartered in London. They anticipate that by the end of the week more than 5,000 Big Data practitioners from 20 countries and four continents will participate.
Typical events include:
- Putting Data to Work (London) – A day of case studies, presentations, community showcases and debates hosted by Ed Dumbhill with the O’Reilly Strata Conference and O’Reilly Open Source Convention.
- An Evening with GigaOM’s Derrick Harris: Big Future for Big Data (Atlanta)
- Londata: Big Data + Big Media (London) – Panel discussion of how Big Data is affecting the media and publishing industries.
With more than 200 events, Big Data Week is a platform for thousands of data scientists, data technologists, data visualisers and leaders from the business, not-for-profit and governments sectors to share how Big Data is impacting their organisations,” according to the conference organizers. “‘Big data has gone from a buzz word to a business reality. Now is the moment to learn from each other to advance the art and science of harnessing data to benefit all aspects of society,’ said Kenneth Cukier, a co-author of the book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think and the data editor at The Economist, who is keynoting an event on 25th April at Imperial College London.”
The full list of the 200+ events can be found here.
And here’s one of the week’s interesting activities: Teams from around the world will be tasked to find the world’s healthiest city using publically available data sources. They will develop models for ranking the health of a city using sources such as government statistics, weather patterns, Twitter sentiment and any other publically available data sets.
Will London be the winner? Only Big Data and time will tell.
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