Our world is under attack. And not just by the usual suspects we always hear about on the evening news, but by data! Buckets full, truckloads, and shiploads of data fill our data centers around the globe. Every day, over 2.5 billion billion bytes of data are created. A huge computing challenge facing us over the coming decades lies in figuring out what to do with all that data, and how to extract meaningful, actionable information from it.

Thankfully, humans are great at filtering through huge amounts of information! We do it every day with our senses, and one of the most powerful senses is sight. Therefore, a key way to derive meaning from all this data is to represent it visually! In this talk, Josh will walk you through a quick overview of big data concepts, including a typical big data map reduce code example. He'll then wire–up the output of the data into an HTML5 visualization layer, and showcase how different insights can be quickly achieved from the same big data set.

Presented by Josh Gertzen

Sponsored by Fenway Group