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Building a Predictive Intelligence Engine
Viral Bajaria explains a formula for reaching the B2B buyer early in the sales cycle by tying together billions of rows of customer data and overlaying predictive intelligence technology.
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Hypermedia Web API as a Network of Data
Todd Brackley discusses accessing the “network of data” through a RESTful hypermedia API, exposing it to developers, testers, analysts and clients.
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APIs, Spreadsheets & Drinking Fountains: Using Open Data in Real Life
Shelby Switzer discusses success stories and failures of using the public data provided by governments, along with techniques for making such data usable.
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GoshawkDB: Making Time with Vector Clocks
Matthew Sackman discusses dependencies between transactions, how to capture these with Vector Clocks, how to treat Vector Clocks as a CRDT, and how GoshawkDB uses them for a distributed data store.
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Predicting the Future: Surprising Revelations trom Truly Big Data
Pushpraj Shukla discusses how Microsoft Bing predicts the future based on aggregate human behavior using one of the largest scale data sets, and recent progress in large scale deep learnt models.
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Staying in Sync: from Transactions to Streams
Martin Kleppmann explores using event streams and Kafka for keeping data in sync across heterogeneous systems, and compares this approach to distributed transactions.
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Netflix Keystone - How We Built a 700B/day Stream Processing Cloud Platform in a Year
Peter Bakas presents in detail how Netflix has used Kafka, Samza, Docker, and Linux to implement a multi-tenant pipeline processing 700B events/day in the Amazon AWS cloud.
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Hunting Criminals with Hybrid Analytics
David Talby demos using Python libraries to build a ML model for fraud detection, scaling it up to billions of events using Spark, and what it took to make the system perform and ready for production.
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Resilient Predictive Data Pipelines
Sid Anand discusses how Agari is applying big data best practices to the problem of securing its customers from email-born threats, presenting a system that leverages big data in the cloud.
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Big-Data Analytics Misconceptions
Irad Ben-Gal discusses Big Data analytics misconceptions, presenting a technology predicting consumer behavior patterns that can be translated into wins, revenue gains, and localized assortments.
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How Comcast Uses Data Science and ML to Improve the Customer Experience
Jan Neumann presents how Comcast uses machine learning and big data processing to facilitate search for users, for capacity planning, and predictive caching.
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The Mechanics of Testing Large Data Pipelines
Mathieu Bastian explores the mechanics of unit, integration, data and performance testing for large, complex data workflows, along with the tools for Hadoop, Pig and Spark.