Adam Rosien will be giving a talk on Scala at next week's Nike Tech Talk

[Thomas Lockney]

Hey folks,

next week Adam Rosien (@arosien) will be in town to give a tech talk at Nike that may be of interest to some of you. The talk is titled Scala, OODA, and Entropy: Thoughts on Continuous Learning. In this talk, Adam will discuss Compellon's approach to so-called prescriptive analytics, which basically means "Ok, but what the *&^% should I do now!?". He'll talk about the barriers blocking domain experts from using analytic systems, how data scientists bias their models, and the evolution of Compellon's engine, written in Scala with Apache Spark.

We'll also have Jags Ramnarayan from local company SnappyData (and formerly of Pivotal, VMware, and Gemfire) speaking on Real Time Operational Analytics at the Speed of Thought with Apache Spark. Apache Spark has come a long way since it began as a faster batch oriented map-reduce solution for Hadoop. With support for streaming, machine learning, and most recently SQL, Spark aspires to become a player in the realm of real time analytics at scale. However, much of its underpinnings remain batch oriented and unsuited for highly concurrent OLAP workloads. In this talk, we will describe how we are innovating and renovating Spark's core underpinnings to make it suitable for real time operational analytics, helping create a unified platform that supports row and column data, high concurrency, and approximate query processing at scale.

These talks will be taking place on Thursday, Nov 19th at the Nike WHQ campus. You can find more details and RSVP here: https://niketechtalks-nov2015.splashthat.com/

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