Go right to the heart of big data
Find out what happens when cutting-edge data science and new business fundamentals intersect. With this complete video compilation, you’ll be on hand for every presentation—whether it’s a keynote, a tutorial, or a workshop—held at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World Conference in San Jose, California during February, 2015.
In ten tracks, this year’s conference captured the most …
Go right to the heart of big data
Find out what happens when cutting-edge data science and new business fundamentals intersect. With this complete video compilation, you’ll be on hand for every presentation—whether it’s a keynote, a tutorial, or a workshop—held at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World Conference in San Jose, California during February, 2015.
In ten tracks, this year’s conference captured the most challenging problems and compelling opportunities in data today, including:
You also have complete access to other conference events, such as Data-Driven Business Day, Hardcore Data Science Day, and Spark Camp.
Download these videos or stream them through our HD player, and gain a clear perspective on data, including all the analytics, architectures, techniques, tools, and technologies you need to use it successfully.
Business Industry
Hiding the Elephant - How Big Data Apps Make Magic While Hiding Hadoop - Ross Fubini, Ari Gesher, Wei Zheng, Omer Trajman, and Sylvain Le Borgne
Pumping Up Retail Profits with Predictive Analytics - Adam Jorgensen
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Please Say Something: Increasing Honesty in Airbnb Reviews - Dave Holtz
Making Big Data Usable in Market Regulation - Scott Donaldson
WANTED: Women in Data, Tech, and STEM - Moderated by: Cornelia Lévy-Bencheton, Panelists: Michele Chambers, Alice Zheng and Neha Narkhede
Helping the Republican Party Use Data and Engineering to Win the US Senate - Azarias Reda
Using Big Data to Identify the World’s Top Experts - Nima Sarshar
The New Data Organization: What do Successful Data-Driven Companies Look Like? - John Haddad
Architecting for the Cloud - Chris Neumann
Solving Customer Problems with Big Data across Thomson Reuters - Brian Ulicny
Connected World
Improving Business Operations with Predictive Maintenance and Service - Oliver Mainka
Forget the Valley: Middle America Is Where Data Is Having Its Biggest Impact - Matt Asay
Robot Reporters: How The Associated Press Embraced Data Automation - Adam Smith
Which is More Interesting - Millions of Thermostats, or Millions of Minds in the Internet of Things? - Doug Stein
Economic Insights from LinkedIn’s Professional Network - June Andrews
Using Data to Help Farmers Feed Growing Populations in a Changing Climate - Stewart Collis
Data Science
Bots Don’t Drink Soda: Using Big Data to Find Real People - Michael Brown
How to Detect Anomalies in High Cardinality Dimensions and Make Them Actionable - Shankar Vedaraman and Christopher Colburn
Big Data and Design Working Together – When the Magic Happens - George Roumeliotis
HOWTO Make Your Future Data Scientists Love You - Sasha Laundy
From Academia to Data Science: Lessons Learned Founding the Insight Data Science Fellows Program - Jake Klamka and Kathy Copic
The Two Cultures of People Science - Michelangelo D’Agostino
Pro Bono Data Science in Action - Helping Teens in Crisis - Noelle Sio
Data Applications: Speed vs Accuracy - Danielle Ben-Gera
Behavior-driven Machine Translation - Irina Borisova and Asim Mathur
Playing Nice in the Product Playground: Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers Working Together to Create Innovative Data Products - Anu Tewary, Lucian Lita and Jonathan Goldman
Machine Learning Building Blocks and the Workload Optimization Framework - Shai Fine
Robust Event Detection Using Diverse Data Types - Harrison Mebane
Purposeful Education with Job Market Data for Students, Educators, and Institutions - Jike Chong
Real-Time Relevance for Mobile at LinkedIn - Michael Conover
Design Interfaces
Building Interactive Data Visualizations - Jonathan Dinu - Part 1
Building Interactive Data Visualizations - Jonathan Dinu - Part 2
Building Interactive Data Visualizations - Jonathan Dinu - Part 3
Building Interactive Data Visualizations - Jonathan Dinu - Part 4
The Human-Data Interface: How to Design for “Irrational” Data Consumers - Cathy Tanimura
Designing Delightful Data Products - Alonzo Canada
Designing for Data - Etan Lightstone
Humanizing Data - Building Systems and Interfaces for Domain Experts - Ari Gesher and James Thompson
Architecting Interfaces that Learn - Tye Rattenbury and Jeffrey Heer
What Designers and Data Scientists Can Learn from Each Other - Danyel Fisher and Miriah Meyer
Data (Art ) Science - Eric Colson
Designing with Data: A Human-centered Approach to Data-driven Design - Arianna McClain and Coe Leta Stafford
Hadoop Beyond
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan - Part 1
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan - Part 2
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan - Part 3
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Reza Zadeh - Part 4
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Reza Zadeh - Part 5
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan and Krishna Sankar - Part 6
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan and Christopher Fregly - Part 7
Spark Camp: An Introduction to Apache Spark with Hands-on Tutorials - Paco Nathan - Part 8
Getting Started with Interactive SQL-on-Hadoop - John Russell and Alan Choi - Part 1
Getting Started with Interactive SQL-on-Hadoop - John Russell and Alan Choi - Part 2
Getting Started with Interactive SQL-on-Hadoop - John Russell and Alan Choi - Part 3
Getting Started with Interactive SQL-on-Hadoop - John Russell and Alan Choi - Part 4
Owning Time Series With Team Apache: Cassandra, Spark, Spark Streaming, and Kafka - Patrick McFadin - Part 1
Owning Time Series With Team Apache: Cassandra, Spark, Spark Streaming, and Kafka - Patrick McFadin - Part 2
Owning Time Series With Team Apache: Cassandra, Spark, Spark Streaming, and Kafka - Patrick McFadin - Part 3
Owning Time Series With Team Apache: Cassandra, Spark, Spark Streaming, and Kafka - Patrick McFadin - Part 4
Going Real-time: Data Collection and Stream Processing with Apache Kafka - Jay Kreps
Stream Processing Everywhere - What to Use? - Jim Scott
Using Multiple Persistence Layers in Spark to Build a Scalable Prediction Engine - Richard Williamson
From MapReduce to Programming Frameworks: Making Sense of Cloud Dataflow, Spark and New Tools for Big Data - Eric Schmidt
Drill into Drill: How Providing Flexibility and Performance is Possible - Jacques Nadeau
Three Approaches to Scalable Data Curation - Michael Stonebraker
One Billion Objects in 2GB: Big Data Analytics on Small Clusters with Doradus OLAP - Randy Guck
Big Data at Netflix: Faster and Easier - Kurt Brown
Search Evolved: Unraveling Your Data - Costin Leau
The Year in Review - Key Changes in the Hadoop Platform in the Past 12 Months - Jairam Ranganathan
Building Interactive Data Applications at Scale - Fangjin Yang and Vadim Ogievetsky
YARN vs. MESOS: Can’t We All Just Get Along? - Ted Dunning
Hadoop Platform
Apache Hadoop Operations for Production Systems - Kathleen Ting, Philip Zeyliger, Philip Langdale, and Miklos Christine - Part 1
Apache Hadoop Operations for Production Systems - Kathleen Ting, Philip Zeyliger, Philip Langdale, and Miklos Christine - Part 2
Apache Hadoop Operations for Production Systems - Kathleen Ting, Philip Zeyliger, Philip Langdale, and Miklos Christine - Part 3
Apache Hadoop Operations for Production Systems - Kathleen Ting, Philip Zeyliger, Philip Langdale, and Miklos Christine - Part 4
Building an Apache Hadoop Data Application - Tom White, Joey Echeverria, and Ryan Blue - Part 1
Building an Apache Hadoop Data Application - Tom White, Joey Echeverria, and Ryan Blue - Part 2
Building an Apache Hadoop Data Application - Tom White, Joey Echeverria, and Ryan Blue - Part 3
Building A Data Platform - Manu Mukerji, Stephen O’Sullivan, and John Akred - Part 1
Building A Data Platform - Manu Mukerji, Stephen O’Sullivan, and John Akred - Part 2
Building A Data Platform - Manu Mukerji, Stephen O’Sullivan, and John Akred - Part 3
Building A Data Platform - Manu Mukerji, Stephen O’Sullivan, and John Akred - Part 4
Hadoop Puzzlers Reloaded - Aaron Myers and Daniel Templeton
The Future of Apache Hadoop Security - Joey Echeverria
Making HBase Accessible to Scientists - Spencer Herath and Aaron Benz
Data Discovery on Hadoop - Sumeet Singh and Thiruvel Thirumoolan
Yarns about YARN: Migrating to MapReduce v2 - Kathleen Ting and Miklos Christine
Maintaining Low Latency while Maximizing Throughput on a Single Cluster - Yuliya Feldman
Running Production Hadoop Clusters in Docker Containers - Nasser Manesh
How to use Parquet as a Basis for ETL and Analytics - Julien Le Dem
Adding Insert, Update, and Delete to Hive - Alan Gates
Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid in a SQL-on-Hadoop Implementation - Monte Zweben
Hadoop in Action
The Evolution of Hadoop at Spotify - Through Failures and Pain - Josh Baer and Rafal Wojdyla
From Source to Solution: Building A System for Machine and Event-Oriented Data - Eric Sammer
Design Patterns for Real Time Streaming Data Analytics - Sheetal Dolas
Stock Market Order Flow Reconstruction in HBase on AWS - Tigran Khrimian
Ticketmaster: Marketing and Selling the World’s Tickets - John Carnahan
Designing Data Architectures for Robust Decision Making - Gwen Shapira
Friction-Free ETL: Automating Data Transformation with Impala - Marcel Kornacker
The Truth About MapReduce Performance on SSDs - Yanpei Chen and Karthik Kambatla
Hadoop as a Platform for Genomics - Allen Day and Sungwook Yoon
Law, Ethics Open Data
Data Scientists and Lawyers - a Marriage made in Silicon Valley - Laura Fennell and Bill Loconzolo
Big Data Ethics and a Future for Privacy - Jonathan King
How Minority Becomes Majority - A Study of Gerrymandering - Tatsiana Maskalevich
Machine Data / IoT
Transformational Case Studies in Machine Data Telemetry - Chad Meley and John Kreisa
TSAR (the TimeSeries AggregatoR) - How to Count Tens of Billions of Daily Events in Real Time Using Open Source Technologies - Anirudh Todi
An Open Source Approach to Gathering and Analyzing Device Sourced Health Data - Ian Eslick
Building Adaptive Apps with APIs and Data - Anant Jhingran
Dynamic Events in Massive Data Streams, from Astrophysics to Marketing Automation - Kirk Borne
Forecasting Space-time Events - Jeremy Heffner
The IoT P2P Backbone - Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz
The Sushi Principle: Raw Data Is Better - Joseph Adler and Robert Johnson
Practical Methods for Identifying Anomalies That Matter in Large Datasets - Robert Grossman
Streaming Analytics: It’s Not The Same Game - Subutai Ahmad
Machine Learning For Oil Exploration - Ben Hamner
Security
Data Science vs. The Bad Guys: Using Data to Defend LinkedIn Against Fraud and Abuse - David Freeman
How to Ensure Your Hadoop Installation is Not the Next Big Data Breach - Terence Spies
Securing the New Wearable World - Gary Davis
The Physics of Apache Hadoop: Choosing the Right Hardware and OS Configuration Mix for Your Workloads - Woody Christy, Steve Anderson, Patrick Schots and Floris Grandvarlet
Enterprise Adoption
Database History from Codd to Brewer and Beyond - Douglas Turnbull
Ideal Platform for Managing Log Data: Search or SQL? - Vinayak Borkar
Getting Started with Data Governance: Paths Converge from Multiple Starting Points - Paula Wiles Sigmon
Don’t Let Today’s Demands Kill Tomorrow’s Workforce! - Martin Waterhouse
Spark in Action
Lessons from Running Large Scale Spark Workloads - Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia
Introducing Hive’s New Execution Engine - Spark - Xuefu Zhang and Chengxiang Li
Machine Learning with H2O and Spark - Cliff Click and Michal Malohlava
Spark Streaming - The State of the Union, and Beyond - Tathagata Das
Why Spark Is the Next Top (Compute) Model - Dean Wampler
Tuning and Debugging in Apache Spark - Patrick Wendell
Everyday I’m Shuffling - Tips for Writing Better Spark Programs - Vida Ha and Holden Karau
Hardcore Data Science
Beyond DNNs towards New Architectures for Deep Learning, with Applications to Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition - Tara Sainath
On the Computational and Statistical Interface and “Big Data” - Michael Jordan
Interpretable Machine Learning in Practice - Maya Gupta
Visual Understanding Beyond Naming - Alyosha Efros
Finding Repeated Structure in Time Series Data: Commercial and Scientific Opportunities - Eamonn Keogh
Tensor Methods for Large-scale Unsupervised Learning: Applications to Topic and Community Modeling - Anima Anandkumar
A Quest for Visual Intelligence in Computers - Fei-Fei Li
Graph Mining for Log Data - David Andrzejewski
Why Julia’s Important for Data Science - John Myles White
Drugs, DNA, and Dinosaurs: Building High Quality Knowledge Bases with DeepDive - Chris Re
Data-Driven Business Day
Don’t Let Data Get in the Way of a Good Story - Mark Madsen
Big Data Stories: Decisions That Drive Successful Projects - Ellen Friedman
Making Business Model Innovation More of a (Data) Science - Jerry Overton
Data “Driven” is Really Data “Accessible” - Ann Johnson
When Ones and Zeros Can Put Billions at Risk… - Anne Johnson
Find the Business in Your Data - Arnab Chakraborty, Dr. Alexander Prinz, Reena Tiwari and Anne Johnson
Tech Magic: 10 Disruptors Shaping the Sensed World - Leah Hunter
Leveraging Big Data and Data Science in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry - Satyam Priyadarshy
Using Data from Many Streams to Drive Social Impact - India Swearingen
Smartphone Data: Tell the Story of People’s Lives - Joerg Blumtritt
Big Data Impacts Marketing Productivity at Cisco - Reena Tiwari
National Drug Index: Revealing Prescription Inflation in the US - AJ Loiacono
Digital Business Era: Stretch Your Boundaries - Prith Banerjee
Data Products and the Wearables Revolution - Emi Nomura
Unlocking the Data in Paper: A Case Study of New York Life - Kuang Chen
R Day
An Easy System for Data Wrangling With tidyr and dplyr - Garrett Grolemund - Part 1
An Easy System for Data Wrangling With tidyr and dplyr - Garrett Grolemund - Part 2
A Reactive Grammar of Graphics with ggvis - Winston Chang
Reproducible R Reports with R Markdown - Garrett Grolemund - Part 1
Reproducible R Reports with R Markdown - Garrett Grolemund - Part 2
Analytic Web Applications with Shiny - Winston Chang - Part 1
Analytic Web Applications with Shiny - Winston Chang - Part 2
PyData
Machine Learning with scikit-learn - Andreas Mueller - Part 1
Machine Learning with scikit-learn - Andreas Mueller - Part 2
Slicing Through Data with NumPy - Jennifer Klay - Part 1
Slicing Through Data with NumPy - Jennifer Klay - Part 2
Intro to Numba and Performance Python - Travis Oliphant - Part 1
Intro to Numba and Performance Python - Travis Oliphant - Part 2
Python Data Applications with Blaze and Bokeh - Andy Terrel and Matthew Rocklin - Part 1
Python Data Applications with Blaze and Bokeh - Andy Terrel and Matthew Rocklin - Part 2
Analytics Beyond the Basics with pandas and SQL - Wes McKinney - Part 1
Analytics Beyond the Basics with pandas and SQL - Wes McKinney - Part 2
Large-scale Machine Learning Day
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Yucheng Low - Part 2
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Yucheng Low - Part 3
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Alice Zheng - Part 4
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Chris DuBois - Part 5
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Alice Zheng - Part 6
Large-scale Machine Learning Day - Shawn Scully - Part 7
Sponsored
Bringing OLAP Fully Online: Analyze Changing Datasets in MemSQL and Spark with Pinterest Demo - Eric Frenkiel
From Domain-specific Solutions to an Open Platform Architecture for Big Data Analytics Based on Hadoop and Spark - Vin Sharma and Jason (Jinquan) Dai
SAS Analytic Solutions Running on a Hadoop Cluster using YARN - James Kochuba
Global Hadoop: Storage and Compute Challenges in Multi-Data Center Deployments - Jagane Sundar
SQL in Hadoop: To Boldly Go where No Data Warehouse has Gone Before - Emma McGrattan
A Simple, Fast Approach to Analytics for Big Data/IoT with kdb+ - Fintan Quill and Doug Talbott
Scalable Realtime Analytics with declarative SQL like Complex Event Processing Scripts - Srinath Perera
The Data Unification Imperative - Andy Palmer
From Monitoring To Monetization With The Data Lake - Bill Schmarzo
Breaking Through the Top 5 Enterprise Data Quality Roadblocks Inside Hadoop - George Corugedo
Data Dexterity: Immediate Visibility Into All Information - Greg Goldsmith
Extreme Sports and Beyond: Exploring a New Frontier in Data - Josh Byrd and Darren Chinen
Cloud Machine Learning - Joseph Sirosh
Credit Suisse Puts Vendors in the Hot Seat on Data Quality and Governance - Nitesh Ambastha, David Brewster and Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Hive on Spark is Blazing Fast… Or Is It? - Carter Shanklin and Mostafa Mokhtar
Tackling the World’s Biggest Data: Human Data - Richard Caudle
Case Study: Data Warehousing in the Cloud with Snowflake at Kixeye - Jon Bock
PostgreSQL Rising: The Other Elephant in the Room - Ozgun Erdogan
Your First Big Data Application on AWS - Rahul Pathak
Smart Enterprise Big Data Bus for the Modern Responsive Enterprise - Anand Venugopal
Driving Better Business Results at Allstate with Machine Learning on Hadoop - Ryan Michaluk and Alexander Gray
Big Data Architectural Pattern - Clint Sharp
Perform Fast Analytics on Hadoop Data Scalable Predictive Analytics with Open Innovations from HP Vertica - Steve Sarsfield and Sunil Venkayala
Running Hadoop-as-a-Service in the Cloud - Lance Olson
Real World Use Cases: Hadoop and NoSQL in Production - Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman
Keynotes
Hadoop’s Impact on the Future of Data Management - Amr Awadallah
Close Encounters with the Third Kind of Database - Eric Frenkiel
Impacting Business as it Happens - Anil Gadre
A Bigger Lens Through which to View the World- the IBM Twitter Alliance - Adam Kocoloski
Data Science: Where are We Going? - DJ Patil
The Emerging Age of Data-Driven Policy Design: Examples from Trying to Manage the Global Climate - Solomon Hsiang
Data: Open for Good and Secure by Default - Eddie Garcia
Year Zero: How We’ll Run Our Lives in Ten Years’ Time - Alistair Croll
Intel and the Role of Open Source in Delivering on the Promise of Big Data - Michael Greene
Big Data Lessons from Our Cybernetic Past - Eden Medina
New Directions for Spark in 2015 - Matei Zaharia
A New Approach to Big Data - Roman Shaposhnik
Charting a Path Forward: The Future of Data Visualization - Jeffrey Heer
Connected Cows? - Joseph Sirosh
Startup Showcase Winner Announcement
Solutions Showcase Theater
The Briefcase Cluster - Enabling Big Data Everywhere - Jim Scott
Why Event Analytics Matter - Rohit Shrivastava
Cracking the Data Conundrum - Steffin Harris
Smart Data for Smarter Utilities - Irshad Raihan
The Value of Churn Analytics at Cisco - Ivan Chen and Phil Hodsdon
Big Data Governance - Felix Van de Maele
Early Warnings for Customer Churn at a Leading Cloud Technology Firm! - Umair Rauf
Harnessing Big Social Data to Deliver Human Data Intelligence - Jason Rose
Operationalizing Hadoop – Are You Ready? - Valerie Fowler
Multimedia Giant Turns Big Data into Real-Time Customer Insights - Brian Garrett
Data Wrangling in the Wild - Sean Ma
StreamAnalytix-Developing Enterprise Class, Real-time Streaming Applications on Apache Storm - Anand Venugopal
Gaining Value From Data Where It’s Born - Ryan Peterson
Build a Foundation for Self-Service Data Prep, Analytics, and Governance - Oliver Claude
Connecting the Big-Data Driven Enterprise in Online Retail - Ashley Stirrup
Leading Telecommunications Company Uses BlueData to Spin Up Local, On Demand Hadoop and Spark Clusters to Enable Agile Deployment of Big Data Tools and Technologies - Nanda Vijaydev
Taming Data Variety: Intelligent Solutions Using Machine Learning and Expert Crowdsourcing - Alan Wagner
Everything You Need To Know About HBase in 10 Minutes or Less - Alex Newman
The Emergence of the Data Refinery - Chuck Yarbrough
Big Data Cluster Planning and Optimization Using Wolf Island Simulation Technology - Laurent Isenegger
Prosthetic Implant Surgery - Where Big Data Means Big Savings - Rola Shaar
Close the Skills Gap and Deliver Rapid Business Value with Big Data Apps - Manan Goel
Distributed R - Scaling the R Language for Even Bigger Data - Sunil Venkayala
Transforming Big Data Landscape with Apache Spark - Rishi Yadav
Data Warehousing in the Cloud - Jon Bock
Proactive Product Intelligence for Electronics - Rami Lokas
Massive-Scale Security Incident Response Leveraging a Hadoop Architecture - Michael A. Davis
Don’t be a Hadoop Breach Headline - Discovery and Sensitive Data in Hadoop - Jeremy Stieglitz
Big Data vs. Climate Change - Srivatsan Ramanujam and John Cardente
ZEAS – Enabling anyone to create Hadoop Enterprise applications fast using a GUI - Aditya Agrawal
Power Tools for Big Data Analytics - Dan Steinberg
Big Data on OpenStack - Kirk Lewis and Frank Rego
Fighting ATM Fraud in Real Time with Hadoop Analytics - Christy Maver
Scale Big Data cost down, while scaling performance out. An NTT mobile personalization retrospective, re-thinking the Big Data solution stack. - Robert Greene
Dato Enables Large-Scale Deduplication at Zillow using GraphLab Create - Rajat Arya
To Catch a Thief with Big Data - Kevin Petrie
Jump into the Data Lake with Hadoop-Scale Data Integration - Greg Benson
Predicting The Future To Improve Customer Satisfaction - Joe Rossi
The Practical, Profitable Magic of Prescriptive Analytics - Andy Flint
Changing the Culture Around Data: Empowering More People with Analytics - Gary Cottrell
How Havas Media Found New Revenue Streams with UNIFi Software - Sean Keenan
What Enterprises Can Learn From Real-Time Bidding - Peter Corless
Big Data and the Data Quality Imperative - Ed Wrazen
Tapjoy Scales and Saves Costs with Riak - Tom Sigler
Smart Execution: How to Optimize Performance by Intelligently Leveraging Multiple Hadoop Analytics Engines - Matt Schumpert
Jagex Game Studio Case Study - Gregory McPhee
Supercharge Sqoop with magical JDBC drivers - Sumit Sarkar
Big Data Analytics: Diverse Use Cases, Diverse Architectures - Ben Conners
Accelerate your data with SequoiaDB - Tao Wang
Building reliable Hadoop clusters with two copies - Iyer Venkatesan