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Twin Cities Code Camp 14
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Minneapolis, MN
Register Here: http://tccc14.eventbrite.com
The code camp with all the things!
The Twin Cities Code Camp is a FREE, biannual coding conference held in the Twin Cities area. TCCC is chock-full of content from great local and regional speakers across all stacks and styles of software development. It's by Devs for Devs! Be prepared, you will learn a ton!
It follows the guidelines published in the Code Camp manifesto. As this is a community-driven event, we are always looking for people to lead sessions, volunteer to help during the day of the event, etc. If you'd like to participate, or if you'd like to contribute to the event, let us know!
If you use Twitter, you can follow the official TCCC account @tccodecamp. Use the hash tag #tccc14 on Twitter to follow all of the latest updates and chatter. Videos from Code Camp 5 and beyond can be found in the YouTube group. Twin Cities Code Camp also has photos from past events on Flickr.
Our Data, Ourselves: The Case of Taxis and Driver Behavior
U of M Social Media & Business Analytics Collaborative
Friday, May 3, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM
Minneapolis, MN
Register Here: http://ourdata-eanrecl.eventbrite.com/
Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University
With Big Data, what was previously invisible is now visible. That has enormous potential. At the same time, it raises important questions about individual privacy. Ramayya Krishnan explores this balance.
Workshop on Big Data + Storage Systems
Presented by the NSF Sponsored - Center for Research on Intelligent Storage (CRIS)
Thursday May 2nd, 2013 8a.m. – 5p.m.
UMN Digital Technology Center – Room 402 Walter Library
Register Here: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/seminars/events.php?eventdesc=703
Background: The Center for Research in Intelligent Storage (CRIS) is working to address many emerging storage systems R&D issues. One of the important subjects today is "Big Data." The majority of Big Data research proposals we see today are talking about visualization, analytics and the application side of big data. We believe it is important to bring big data together with the advancements of storage systems. Therefore, we are organizing a workshop on big data + data storage systems to identify current issues and future challenges.
Register ($50) Here: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/seminars/events.php?eventdesc=703
No Cost Online Classes of Interest (MOOC's)
Machine Learning
Andrew Ng, Stanford University
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Learn about the most effective machine learning techniques, and gain practice implementing them and getting them to work for yourself.
Next Session: Apr 22nd 2013 (10 weeks long) Workload: 5-7 hours/week
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp
Brian Caffo, John Hopkins University
https://www.coursera.org/course/biostats
This class presents the fundamental probability and statistical concepts used in elementary data analysis. It will be taught at an introductory level for students with junior or senior college-level mathematical training including a working knowledge of calculus. A small amount of linear algebra and programming are useful for the class, but not required.
Next Session: Apr 16th 2013 (7 weeks long) Workload: 3-5 hours/week
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#BigDataMN: Minnesota's Field Guide to Analytics
SOLD OUT! We gave out in excess of 800 seats.
On the coldest day in Minnesota in years people came in from the cold and boy, were they hungry for knowledge (and food -We went through 705 lunches).
Tech.MN Atomic Video Interview
Minnov8 Gang Podcast #201 – Big, Big Data
Tech.MN Interview with Venue Host and CSOM Professor Ravi Bapna
Tech.MN Interview with Dave Fowler
“There are some big data meetups centered in the standard conference centers…Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York… but this is unheard of for a local meetup group, I don’t know of another one like it in the country.”
-Dave Fowler, Founder Chart.IO San Francisco, CA
Recent articles mentioning conference
StarTribune Columnist Lee Schafer "Go west? Big data fits nicely right here"
Carlson School News Article "Big Data Conference Comes to Carlson School"
Tech.MN Article "Big Data is Back"
Thomas Dinsmore Blog Notes on Conference
One Page Schedule with Video links is here
More information including many Abstracts and Bios.
Championing data at the juncture of Business, Tech, and Math. @MinneAnalytics
This is an all day multi-track event. We expect more than 700 participants.
Tracks and Sessions to include but not limited to:
- General Analytics & Basic Big Data
- Hadoop & NoSQL, (MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Cassandra, Drill...)
- Predictive Modeling
- Retail, Marketing & Customer Insight Analytics
- Talent
- Social Media Analytics
- Data Visualization
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Facilities:
First Floor Atrium, Auditorium (CSOM 1-115), Classroom CSOM 1-114, and the five rooms of the Executive Center.
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Auditorium and Classroom 1-114 |
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Executive Center (5 rooms) |
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Scope out our developing beta Lanyrd Site here: http://lanyrd.com/2013/bigdatamn
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