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The Best of Strata New York 2011:
Learn the tools for making data work with this complete video series
Demand has skyrocketed for data scientists proficient in the technologies for gleaning insight and utility from big data. At O’Reilly’s Strata New York Conference in September 2011, developers and data professionals learned about the best tools and technologies for everything from gathering, cleaning, analyzing, and storing data to communicating data intelligence effectively.
This video compilation gives you access to every session
Tune into hardcore technical sessions on parallel computing, machine learning, and interactive visualizations. Examine case studies from finance, media, healthcare, and technology. And get provocative reports from experts and innovators. Join Ken Bado (MarkLogic CEO), Alistair Croll, (Bitcurrent Founder), Mark Madsen (Third Nature CEO), and 75 other presenters as they explore new methods to make data work.
Included among the 30 sessions you’ll receive in this video package:
Data:
Bringing the Rest of the World into Your Data Warehouse—Philip Kromer (Infochimps)Journey or Destination: Using Models to Explore Big Data—Ben Gimpert (Altos Research)Taming Data Logistics: the Hardest Part of Data Science—Ken Farmer (IBM)Business:
When Elephants Mate: Will Hadoop Transform Banking?—Abhishek Mehta (Tresata)Extracting Microbial Threats from Big Data—Robert Munro (EpidemicIQ, Global Viral Forecasting)Do it Right: Proven Techniques for Exploiting Big Data Analytics—Bill Schmarzo (EMC)Interfaces:
Designing Data Visualizations: Telling Stories with Data—Noah Iliinsky (Complex Diagrams)Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization—Alex Lundry (TargetPoint Consulting)How to Avoid Some Common Graphical Mistakes—Naomi Robbins (NBR)
Table of Contents
STRATA JUMPSTART
Jumpstart - Opening Remarks: The Harsh Light of Data - Alistair Croll
Jumpstart - Big Data, Big Legal Impact - Nolan Goldberg
Jumpstart - What Kinds of People and Processes are Needed for Data Management and Analytics? - Cathy O’Neil
Jumpstart - Big Data, Stupid Decisions: The Importance of Measuring the Right Thing - Panagiotis Ipeirotis
Jumpstart - Situation Normal, Everything Must Change - Simon Wardley
Jumpstart - Applying Lean Methods to Fat Companies - Hiten Shah
Jumpstart - NBA (Next Best Action) for MBAs - James Kobielus
Jumpstart - People Analytics: Using Data to Drive HR Strategy and Action - Kathryn Dekas
Jumpstart - Creating Your Transparency Strategy in the Age of Wikileaks - Michael Nelson
Jumpstart - Data Science and Building Data Teams - DJ Patil
Jumpstart - Evolution, Not Revolution - Michael Nelson, Simon Wardley, Alistair Croll, and Edd Dumbill
Jumpstart - Closing Thoughts: The Data Imperative - Alistair Croll
STRATA SUMMIT
Strata Summit - Welcome Opening Remarks - Edd Dumbill
Strata Summit - Big Data: The Next Frontier - Michael Chui
Strata Summit - Computing the World - Stephen Wolfram
Strata Summit - Lies, Damned Lies, and the Data Scientist - Monica Rogati
Strata Summit - Juice Data Viz Contest winner
Strata Summit - Managing IT Operations and Analyzing Big Data With HPCC Systems From LexisNexis - Armando Escalante
Strata Summit - Move Over Nielsen: Rethinking TV Ratings - Jodee Rich
Strata Summit - Turning Their Data into your Money (and Vice Versa) - Robert Lefkowitz
Strata Summit - UN Global Pulse - Robert Kirkpatrick
Strata Summit - Personal Data for Public Good - Robert Kirkpatrick, Jane Yakowitz, and Bill Hoffman
Strata Summit - Designing for Human Sensors, Not Human Barcodes - Cory Doctorow
Strata Summit - GE Announces New Data Platform To Assist In Fight Against Breast Cancer - Paul Marcum
Strata Summit - Data-Driven Journalism at the Guardian - Simon Rogers
Strata Summit - Generating Stories from Data - Kristian Hammond
Strata Summit - Transparency and Strategic Leaking - Michael Nelson
Strata Summit - The New Corporate Intelligence - Sean Gourley
Strata Summit - Data and Investigative Journalism - Marshall Kirkpatrick, Simon Rogers, Francis Irving, Jeff Jarvis, and Michael Nelson
Strata Summit - Big Data: Keep it Small, Stupid! - James Kobielus
Strata Summit - Consumer Data and Decisions: How the Social Data Revolution Transforms Everything from Travel to Retail - Andreas Weigend, Will Smith, and Marty St. George
Strata Summit - Analytics and Witch-Doctoring - J. C. Herz
Strata Summit - The Changing Role of the CIO - Moderator: J. C. Herz, with Jim Golden, Doug Harr, and Norman Nie
Strata Summit - Recapitulation - Quentin Hardy
Strata Summit - Sponsored Session: EMC Greenplum Using EMCs Big Data Analytics Platform to Solve Real Business Challenges - Frank Mong and Marco Pacelli
Strata Summit - Sponsored Session: Amazon Big Data Inside Amazon - John Rauser
Strata Summit - Sponsored Session: Aster Data Where Did Your Marketing Dollars Go? Digital Marketing Optimization Social Network Analysis - Randy Lea
Strata Summit - Sponsored Session: LexisNexis HPCC Systems Finds Potential Fraud and Collusion in Health Care - Bill Fox and Jo Prichard
Strata Summit - We’re Measuring The Wrong Things - Matthew Bishop
Strata Summit - Startup Launchpad: Introduction and Startups #1, #2, #3
Strata Summit - Big Data In Banking - Moderated by: Abhishek Mehta - Panelists: Roy E. Lowrance, Richie Prager, and Allen Weinberg
Strata Summit - Money Talks (and What It Says) - Coco Krumme
Strata Summit - One Billion Rows per Second: Analytics for the Digital Media Markets - Michael Driscoll
Strata Summit - Big Data Analytics Is Changing the World, and Your Business - Bill Cook
Strata Summit - Creating a National Data Utility: Dodd-Frank Financial Reforms - Moderated by: Mark Bolgiano - Panelists: Donald F. Donahue and John Bottega
Strata Summit - Google+ The Power of Social Data - Bradley Horowitz and Tim O’Reilly
Strata Summit - Atmospheric Analytics - Michael Ferrari
Strata Summit - Startup Launchpad: Startup #4, #5
Strata Summit - Understanding Sentiment: The Future of Natural Language Processing - Jennifer Zeszut
Strata Summit - Big Data – Strategies For Generating Money In Data-driven Startups - Moderated by: David Schwab - Panelists: Paul Kedrosky, Todd Papaioannou, Robert D. Thomas, and Clint Johnson
Strata Summit - Startup Launchpad Judging - Gamiel Gran, Roger Ehrenberg, and Alistair Croll
Strata Summit - Data At The Scale Of The Universe - Kyle Cranmer
Strata Summit - Why Dirty Data Loves A Crowd - Ariel Seidman
Strata Summit - The Business of Illegal Data: Innovation from the Criminal Underground - Marc Goodman
Strata Summit - Towards a Global Brain - Tim O’Reilly
STRATA CONFERENCE
Strata Conference - Data-Driven Innovation: How Open Government is Transforming New York City - Rachel Sterne
Strata Conference - A Profusion of Exoplanets: NASA’s Kepler Mission - Jon Jenkins
Strata Conference - Best of the Best: Announcing Winners of Strata/Tableau Data Visualization Contest - Elissa Fink
Strata Conference - 9/11 and The Weight of Data - Jer Thorp
Strata Conference - Simplifying Big Analytics for the Business - Randy Lea
Strata Conference - What is a Career in Big Data? - John Rauser
Strata Conference - Doing Good With Data: Data Without Borders - Jake Porway and Drew Conway
Strata Conference - First, Firster, Firstest - Mark Madsen
Strata Conference - Announcement of the Winner of the First Heritage Health Prize Progress Prize - Richard Merkin
Strata Conference - Health Empowerment through Self-Tracking - Anne Wright
Strata Conference - Big Data, Big Opportunity - Ken Bado
Strata Conference - Short URLs, Big Data: Learning About the World in Realtime - Hilary Mason
Strata Conference - Calling for a New Paradigm: Machines Plus Humans - Arnab Gupta
Strata Conference - Data Challenges in Astronomy: NASA’s Kepler Mission and the Search for Extrasolar Earths - Jon Jenkins
Strata Conference - The Human Dimension: Organizational and Social Challenges of Business Analytics - John Lucker
Strata Conference - Marketing with Data - Joseph Adler
Strata Conference - Data Prediction Competitions: What Archimedes and Roger Bannister Can Teach Us about the Business of Data - Jeremy Howard
Strata Conference - Big Data, Emergency Management and Business Continuity - Jeannie Stamberger
Strata Conference - Extracting Microbial Threats From Big Data - Robert Munro
Strata Conference - HunchWorks: Combining Human Expertise and Big Data - Chris van der Walt, Dane Petersen, and Sara Farmer
Strata Conference - Creating a Fact-based Decision Making Culture in Organizations - Amaresh Tripathy
Strata Conference - Gaining New Insights from Massive Amounts of Machine Data - Jake Flomenberg and Denise Hemke
Strata Conference - Why MongoDB Was Created: What I Wish I Knew at DoubleClick - Dwight Merriman
Strata Conference - Dedupe, Merge, and Purge: The Art of Normalization - Tyler Bell and Leo Polovets
Strata Conference - Bringing the Rest of the World Into Your Data Warehouse - Philip Kromer
Strata Conference - Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: The State of Structured Search - Daniel Tunkelang, Andrew Hogue, Breck Baldwin, Evan Sandhaus, and Wlodek Zadrozny
Strata Conference - Big (Bad) Data - Elizabeth Charnock
Strata Conference - Agile Clouds for Big Data: Empowering the Data Scientist - Richard McDougall
Strata Conference - Big Data and Big Analytics: SciDB Is not Hadoop - Paul Brown
Strata Conference - Optimizing Scarce Resources Using Real-time Decision Making - Alasdair Allan
Strata Conference - Navigating the Data Pipeline - Tim Moreton
Strata Conference - The Accidental Chief Privacy Officer - Jim Adler
Strata Conference - Journey or Destination: Using Models to Explore Big Data - Ben Gimpert
Strata Conference - Data as the Building Block at Foursquare - Justin Moore
Strata Conference - Taming Data Logistics - The Hardest Part of Data Science - Ken Farmer
Strata Conference - Data Visualization - Where Normal People Fall in Love with Data - Hjalmar Gislason
Strata Conference - Humble Pie: Helping the Guardian Chart Big Stories Through Small Details - Alastair Dant
Strata Conference - The Charts You Want Might Not Be the Charts You Need - Irene Ros
Strata Conference - Data Science from the Perspective of an Applied Economist - Scott Nicholson
Strata Conference - 1M. 10M. 100M. Data! - Monica Rogati
Strata Conference - Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization - Alex Lundry
Strata Conference - Designing Data Visualizations: Telling Stories With Data - Noah Iliinsky
Strata Conference - Big Data Use Cases in the Cloud - Peter Sirota and Justin Moore
Strata Conference - Google Cloud for Data Crunchers - Ryan Boyd and Chris Schalk
Strata Conference - Data Environmentalism - Trevor Hughes
Strata Conference - Hazarding a Guess: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Analytics and Big Data Applications - Solon Barocas, Betsy Masiello, and Jane Yakowitz
Strata Conference - Apache Cassandra 1.0: Ready for the Enterprise - Jonathan Ellis
Strata Conference - MapReduce for the Rest of Us: Unlocking Data Science for the Business User - Tasso Argyros
Strata Conference - How Thomson Reuters Finds a Needle in Many Haystacks within Seconds - Steve Jackson
Strata Conference - Gaining Adoption Through Data Visualization - Lee Feinberg
Strata Conference - How Hadoop is Revolutionizing Business Intelligence and Advanced Data Analytics - Amr Awadallah
Strata Conference - Telecom Network Switches: Big Value from Big Data - Jim Falgout
Strata Conference - LexisNexis: Reinventing New Business with Big Data - Ron Avnur and Mark Rodgers
Strata Conference - Big Data Revolution: Benefit from MapReduce Without the Risk - Ted Dunning
Strata Conference - Beyond BI Transforming Your Business with Big Data Analytics - Steven Hillion
Strata Conference - Assembling Data to Fight Breast Cancer - Moderated by: Roger Magoulas - Panelists: Anthony Goldbloom, Trajan Bayly, Nuala O’Connor Kelly and Abdul Shaikh
Strata Conference - Big Data Architectures 2.0: Beyond the Elephant Ride - Vineet Tyagi