Viafoura has a lot of interest in big data. As a result of being installed on large, enterprise websites we process large amounts of data. This includes social data from logins, opinion data from comments and browsing data from regular surfing (just to name a few). Making this all make sense for our clients is a large part of what we do. This is why we decided to host Big Data Week for Toronto.
Big Data Week is an international event hosted in over 20 major cities (Amsterdam, Shanghai, London, Madrid, etc). Viafoura has been chosen to represent Toronto (and is the only Canadian city on the roster). Each city hosts various events, discussions, hack-a-thons etc. to proliferate knowledge pertaining to large data sets (a.k.a big data)
Viafoura is hosting a series of free discussions (and a hackathon) with some amazing speakers on big data between April 22 and 27. It will be located at our office in Toronto and we would love for you to join and pass the word along.
Below are the talks, and when they are happening. We also have an event page here http://viafoura.com/bdw/
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How Publishers Can Utilize Big Data
Monday April 22 8am – 10am
Ali Ghafour (CTO – Viafoura) & Victor Anjos (Senior Developer (Big Data) – Viafoura)
The Business Value of Social Data
Monday April 22 8am – 10am
Christopher Berry (Chief Science Officer – Authintic)
Big Data Learnings from a vendor’s perspective
Tuesday April 23 12pm – 2pm
Dr. Srini Srinivasan (CEO – Aerospike)
What is Hadoop, How it’s being used, and What the Future Holds
Wednesday April 24 6pm – 9pm
Adam Muise (Solutions Engineer – Hortonworks)
Building Vector Machine Classifier for detecting malicious IPs
Wednesday April 24 6pm – 9pm
Joel Perras (Senior Consultant Big Data – Fictive Kin)
Hackathon!!
Saturday April 27 9am – 9pm
The viafoura big data week hack-a-thon will feature prizes, free food and drinks, cool data sets, and Toronto’s best talent!
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Feel free to share an individual event or the event site http://viafoura.com/bdw/
Ali Ghafour
Co-Founder & CTO