We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI St. Louis Chapter meeting on March 2nd from 8:00am - noon at the Racquet Club Ladue. We will have two sessions discussing: The Rise of Big Data and Case Studies: Putting Big Data to Work - A Hadoop and Hbase Case Study and Process Mining of Clinical Workflows Case Study.
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Q1 2012 St. Louis Area TDWI Chapter Meeting
The TDWI St. Louis Chapter cordially invites you to attend our upcoming meeting on Friday, March 2, 2012. Come meet other local BI/DW professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education.
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Friday, March 2, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
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Racquet Club Ladue
1600 Log Cabin Lane
St. Louis, MO 63124
This event is free of charge and open to all interested BI/DW professionals. Breakfast will be provided. |
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Agenda:
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8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:30 – 9:00 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
M. C. Sankar, Chapter President |
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9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Session 1:
" The Rise of Big Data "
By John Leach
Founder of Incite Retail LLC |
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Abstract:
Big Data is being discussed in many organizations, and it is getting a lot of attention. We are at the beginning of a "Big Data" technology wave that seems to mirror the onset of e-commerce in its power to disrupt and change competitive landscapes. While we have seen the wave traverse from search engines to social media as it picks up strength, what do the internals of that wave look like, and how does an organization practically harness that power? This presentation will cover the following:
* What is Big Data?
* The progression of the Big Data wave
* Current vendors and approaches
* How does Distributed Computing work |
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10:00 - 10:30 a.m. |
Networking Break |
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10:30 - 11:30 a.m. |
Session2:
" Case Study 1: Process Mining of Clinical Workflows Case Study"
By Vidyalakshmi Iyer and Anil Kabra
Mercy Health System
" Case Study 2: Putting Big Data to Work: A Hadoop and Hbase Case Study"
By John Leach
Founder of Incite Retail LLC
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Abstracts:
Case Study 1: Mercy is on a mission to improve clinical workflows and has found a way to leverage system access logs and "big data" technology to analyze how care givers do their work. Experts from Mercy's architecture team will provide an overview of the process and technology used to extract and manipulate the access logs information, currently at more than 20 billion rows and 4 TB, as well as the analytical techniques used to gain insight about operational workflow patterns.
Case Study 2: Traditional databases and architectures are not sufficient to harness the power of Big Data. In this new digital age, the sheer volume, velocity, and variety of data requires new class of technologies and approach: Learn through a case study how Apache™ Hadoop™ and Hbase, an open-source framework, can be used to manage “Big Data.” |
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11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Raffles and Closing Remarks |
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Space is limited so sign up early! To become a member at a 10% discount, please click here and use priority code stlchp1. For more information about TDWI Membership, contact chapters@tdwi.org.
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Bios of Presenters
John Leach
John Leach, a partner of Amitech Solutions, is the founder of Incite Retail LLC, a "Big Data" software and services firm, in Clayton Missouri. He has provided strategic software and services on Big Data to several fortune 500 firms centered around marketing and marketing analytics. He is currently the organizer of the Saint Louis Hadoop Users Group.
Vidyalakshmi Iyer
Vidyalakshmi Iyer has over thirteen years experience in Information Systems Industry most of which is in the data warehousing area. She has an Engineering degree from Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. She is the Solution Architect in Mercy presently the liaison between the business and the technology. For this project she brings the knowledge of Patient EHR System whose event logs were used to determine the clinical process workflow.
Anil Kabra
Anil Kabra has twenty years of experience in software development, architecture, programming and analysis. He has an Electronics and Communications engineering degree from MBM Engineering College in Jodhpur, India. He is currently an architect with the Enterprise Architecture department for Mercy Health System in St. Louis, Missouri. He has extensive experience with data transformation and specifically worked on preprocessing the data from the event logs to the Extensible Event Stream format required by the ProM tool.
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