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October 2013 – Clojure Users Group Meetup (Wed, Oct 16) Marc Limotte will be describing a system we created at Climate.com for deploying immutable, versioned models. |
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Introduction to Digital Signal Processing in Hadoop (Wed, Oct 16) In this talk Adam Laiacano will introduce the concepts of digital signals, filters, and their interpretation in both the time and frequency domain, and work through a few simple examples of low-pass filter design and application. |
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(Sat, Oct 19) The goal of the Mobile Payments Hackathon is to encourage the development of mobile payments technology and provide developers with the tools and inspiration they need to build awesome products that improve the payments industry. |
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(Tue, Oct 22) MongoDB is great for Big Data, but it’s also great for work on the other end of the scale — call it “Wee Data”. This type of data is far more common than Big Data scenarios… in fact, just about every project starts with it. |
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(Sat, Oct 26) Cyrus Innovation & Flatiron School are excited to be co-sponsors of the first annual RubyMotion Conference in New York City.Take advantage of the opportunity to surround yourself with the local RubyMotion community for exciting conversations, informative presentations, case studies and open space. |
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Top NYC Events Weekly, October 11
Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, September 11
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(Thu, Sep 12) From the blogosphere to news stories to Meetups to OpenStack Summits, the topic of embracing the Amazon Web Services API and architecture as a part of the OpenStack project is a hot topic. |
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(Tue, Sep 17) This will be a hands-on introduction to Slick, Typesafe’s innovative database library. The presenters will look at concepts and write live code. |
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(Tue, Sep 17) Tal Galili will discuss creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R (+a bonus). John will discuss streaming data analysis and online learning. |
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(Wed, Sep 25) Mike Dalessio is the co-author of the Nokogiri gem. He helps run Pivotal Labs NYC practice and writes code for fun and profit. |
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(Thu, Sep 26) “SQL on Hadoop” has become one of the most popular big data themes of 2013. Why all the hype? Join us at this meet-up to learn |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, September 6
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(Tue, Sep 10) Mahesh will empower us with his awesome knowledge of Erlang and outline the influence of Lisp & Prolog on this very unique and exceptional language. |
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(Thu, Sep 12) From the blogosphere to news stories to Meetups to OpenStack Summits, the topic of embracing the Amazon Web Services API and architecture as a part of the OpenStack project is a hot topic. |
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(Tue, Sep 17) This will be a hands-on introduction to Slick, Typesafe’s innovative database library. The presenters will look at concepts and write live code. |
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(Tue, Sep 17) Tal Galili will discuss creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R (+a bonus). John will discuss streaming data analysis and online learning. |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, August 3
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( (Mon, Aug 12) A step by step intensive 2 hours demonstration session of model building which focus on a ongoing kaggle competition. The presenter will be Yibo Chen who is a data analyst with experience in model building such as response model in CRM and credit score card. |
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(Mon, Aug 12) This month’s meetup focuses on recruiting and hiring in technology. There will be 5 expert speakers followed by networking. |
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(Mon, Aug 19) Aditya Mukerjee will discuss how to use Google’s Go programming language for statistics. In this talk, Aditya will provide an overview of the current state of statistical programming in Go, and some basic tips for getting started. |
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(Tue, Aug 20) In this talk, we’ll hear from Sam Helman, Software Engineer at 10gen, on how 10gen is integrating Go into our new and existing cloud tools. This was an opportunity to experiment with new technologies and create a better product for end users. |
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(Wed, Aug 21) OpenStack is quickly becoming the defacto standard for Open Cloud platforms. Kenneth Hui, Open Cloud Architect at Rackspace will be leading our discussion. |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, July 2
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| Spike Brehm from Airbnb shares Rendr, their new open-source framework (Tue, July 2) Spike Brehm from Airbnb will be joining us on his visit to NYC from SF to share Rendr, their new open-source framework. | |
| Peter Norvig presenting…. (Tue, July 2) Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, will be presenting a surprise talk this week at Bloomberg. | |
| Go (language) in Use at 10gen (Tue, July 2) 10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz will be talking about how his company is putting the Go programming language to use in some of their new products and services, specifically a continuous integration framework and database cluster manager. | |
| Async Coding in Play with both Java and Scala (Wednesday, July 10) Jim Brikman from LinkedIn will talk about several benefits of the Play Framework, including Play´s lesser known native support of non blocking I/O. | |
| (Fri, July 12) GothamJS, a conference featuring a series of speakers presenting on all things javascript. | |
| Data Anywhere Workshop: 2-day training for building an open data commons (Sat, July 13) Participants will learn basic and advanced UNIX commands, Python, noSQL, and how to configure and secure a UNIX server for hosting open (or private) data sets. | |
| MongoDB for Continuous Deployment (Tue, July 16) Lars Kluge from Kitchensurfing will discuss how they use MongoDB to power their continuous deployment system. | |
QCon New York, June 10-14 (g33ktalk Promo Code)
QCon New York: June 10-14, 2013 is back.
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, April 3
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Batch Data Processing at Spotify (Wed, Apr 3)
Erik will be talking about Luigi, a recently open-sourced Python framework. |
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(Wed, Apr 3)
Machine learning engineer Max Sklar presents a talk on natural language processing at Foursquare HQ. |
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No Fluff just stuff (Fri-Sat, Apr 5-6)
Conference focusing on the latest technologies and best practices emerging in the enterprise software development space. |
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CloudStack Introduction and Basics – 2 hour event (Wed, Apr 10)
CloudStack Overview, CloudStack 4.1 roadmap and beyond, Spotify & WebMD on CloudStack |
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Explore Ruby 2.0 with David A. Black (Wed, Apr 10)
Talk on the cool new features of Ruby 2.0.0-p0. Lazy enumerators, named arguments, Module#prepend, and more. |
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MongoDB New York City 2013 (g33ktalk discount) (Fri, Jun 21)
MongoDB New York City is an annual one-day conference in New York, NY dedicated to MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database, held on June 21st. Use promo code “g33k20″ for a 20% discount! |
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20% Discount Code for RICON East (May 13 – 14)
2 day conference organized by Basho Technologies. RICON is dedicated to distributed systems best practices, experts from academia and industry discuss the challenges of computing at scale. Discount code: “DataEngineering” |
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NYC Top Tech Events Weekly, March 18
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NYC Data Business Meetup #14 (Tue, Mar 19)
There is going to be amazing talk by some heavyweights of the Big Data world; DJ Patil from Greylock, Jeff Hammerbacher from Cloudera, Ben Werther from Platfora, Ron Bodkin from Think Big Analytics. Don’t miss this event! RubyMotion + Pixate – Styling iOS apps using CSS (Wed, Mar 20) Jason Reid (Cyrus Innovation) will be at this NYC RubyMotion’s meetup and he will be talking about how to use Pixate to style RubyMotion apps using CSS. Teaching Machines to Read for Fun and Profit (Thu, Mar 21) This month Gary Kazantsev, who runs the R&D Machine Learning group at Bloomberg, presents “Teaching Machines to Read for Fun and Profit.” He will give a broad overview of the machine learning problems being tackled at Bloomberg today, and then talk in detail about a specific project: price impact analysis of financial news. MongoDB March Madness (Sat, Mar 23) This is a month-long hackathon for MongoDB User Groups to compete for the best MongoDB tools and apps. The Hackathon will be hosting all day at 10gen. Please join and help build some awesome projects with MongoDB! Language #5: Erlang (Mon, Mar 25) This is the 5th meeting of the group, “7 Languages in 7 Months NYC,” where they go through the book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks,” by Bruce Tate. This month they’re doing Erlang, a concurrent, functional programming language with strong support for distributed systems and fault tolerance (among other things). The talk will be by Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya, CTO of Vocalocity. |
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NYC Top Tech Events Weekly, March 11
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Big Data Insights from the Trenches (Thu, Mar 14)
Join this meetup for three talk about ‘a Machine Learning engine predicting the performance of a piece of content’, ‘building an open source framework for data pipelines’ and ‘why Tapad chose Hadoop for it’s latest big data project’. Open Source Private Clouds with CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenStack (Thu, Mar 14) This meetup has speakers from all three leading Open Source IaaS platforms, CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenStack, to help you understand their platforms. Each speaker will give a quick overview of their project, including history, strengths, ideal use cases and future direction. Talk suggestion “In-Memory Big Data with GridGain” (Thu, Mar 14) Nikita Ivanov, CEO of GridGain Systems, will talk about big data and in-memory processing in general and also he will do a live coding of several simple MapReduce applications using GridGain and Scala. Scala Notebook: A REPL with Interactive Visualization (Mon, Mar 18) Ken Vogel will talk about Scala Notebook – an interactive Web-based Scala evaluator. |
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NYC Top Tech Events Weekly, March 4
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Twitter NYC Platform Services Tech Talks (Wed, Mar 6)
This event will be featuring tech talks from engineers across the Twitter Platform Services organization. Adobe Presents : Multiplatform Game Development using the Adobe Gaming SDK (Thu, Mar 7) Lee Brimelow will present on developing multiplatform games using Adobe’s new gaming tools and SDK. Flash-based technologies like Adobe AIR and Stage3D will of course be covered, but there will also be discussion about developing HTML5 games using CreateJS and PhoneGap. (Thu, Mar 7) This event is about Big Data and Machine Learning with an RoR twist at Knewton. This should be an incredible event, the CTO of StreamBase will be presenting, along with the lead data scientist of Knewton, and Thomas Santero, technical evangelist of Basho Technologies. Introduction to Backbone.js (Mon, Mar 11) Backbone.js is a JavaScript MVC framework that sparked a renewed interest in ways to manage complexity in client-side development. This event will cover some of the basic pieces of Backbone and look at the Todo example app, talk about Backbone’s strengths and weaknesses relative to other options, then work through a practice project. |
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