Before and after the two days of Berlin Buzzwords conference, it's time to get involved, make things happen and work on high quality and deep technical content. Besides the annual barcamp on Sunday we offer attendees the possibility of visiting meetups, workshops and hackathons for an intense and focused insight into their favorite topics. They are organised by volunteers and hosted by Berlin Buzzwords as well as local companies. Berlin Buzzwords attendees are free to go to any of these after successful registration.
Below is a summary of all Hackathons and Meetups. For more detailed information please check out the extended list.
Cassandra 2.1 with Jonathan Ellis
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:00 PM (register here!)
Jonathan Ellis, co-Founder and CTO at DataStax and Cassandra Project Chair at Apache Software Foundation, will be speaking about Cassandra 2.1. This is a great opportunity to meet him and hear about his experience.
HitFox meets Berlin Buzzwords
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 (register here!)
HitFox is a startup incubator based in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Seoul. Since many people don’t associate them with building technological projects within the big data sphere, they are organizing an open house with drinks, food, and talks after the closing session of the Buzzwords Conference.
12th Recommender Stammtisch
Thursday, May 22, 2014 (register here!)
This May, the Recommender Stammtisch returns to ResearchGate. You can look forward to two exciting talks by Sebastian Schelter and Stefan Savev, followed by a happy hour.
Data Talk
Thursday, May 26, 2014 (register here!)
Common Crawl meets MIA – Gathering and Crunching Open Web Data
There will be two projects presented that set off to democratize the access to public Web data and provide the means of analysis to virtually anyone. Be our guest when Lisa Green and Jordan Mendelson present Common Crawl, a Web crawl made publicly accessible for further research and dissemination, and Peter Adolphs introduces MIA, a Cloud-based platform for analyzing Web-scale data sets with a toolbox of natural language processing algorithms.
Cascading Meetup
Monday, May 26, 2014 (register here!)
Simplifying Application Development on Hadoop
This session is about simplifying application development on Hadoop by using Cascading, an open source Java application framework that provides higher level data processing abstractions. This talk focuses on our experience in building complex data flow applications, that are enterprise-grade, through test driven development. The talk will also be showcasing, through live demo and code, how an application developed with Cascading can be extended to integrate with predictive models built with analytics tools, like R, and scaled-out on a Hadoop cluster.
HitFox meets Berlin Buzzwords
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 (register here!)
HitFox is a startup incubator based in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Seoul. Since many people don’t associate us with building technological projects within the big data sphere, we are organizing an open house with drinks, food, and talks after the closing session of the Buzzwords conference.
Meetup Java Usergroup Berlin-Brandenburg (in German)
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (register here!)
Die Java Usergroup Berlin-Brandenburg und die iJUG laden ein zum Vortrag Wissenstransfer 2.0: Liest du noch oder programmierst du schon? mit Dr. Marcel Bruch von Codetrails UG.
Big Data Beers Meetup
Thursday, May 29, 2014 (register here!)
The Big Data Beers Meetup takes place at hub:raum and there will be two exciting speakers: Ted Dunning (MapR) and Sebastian Schelter (Mahout). The Hashtag is #bigdatabeers
(Graphs)-[:ARE]->(Everyhwere) Learn&Hack-Day
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (register here!)
Join for a relaxed day of learning about the power of graphs, graph modeling and querying. Take a look into cool use-cases and applications, and explore how easy it is to get your own graph-model and -app going in just a few minutes.
Data Stream Mining Hackathon
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (register here!)
At the last day of the Berlin Buzzwords 2014 conference retresco and developers from avantgarde labs and streamdrill invite up to 20 people to Hack one day on the topic of Stream-Mining. We will focus on on implementing algorithms like Sketching, Reservoir Sampling and Priority Sampling for Sliding Windows and will work with lot's of short text data to test the algorithms. Currently we think we will work in python, but other languages are welcome too.
Elasticsearch Hackfest
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 (register here!)
The monthly Elasticsearch Usergroup Berlin meet-up will be transformed into a day long Hackfest with a social gathering in the evening (including talks by members of the Elasticsearch team) on May 28. Members of the Elasticsearch Team will be present both at the Hackfest and the Social Gathering.
photo: CC-BY-SA by Matylda Czarnecka
