Interested in hearing from inspiring speakers on the opportunities and the importance of Big Data and how to apply it? Do you want to learn how your body language influences your personal and professional life, what kind of messages you can send even if you are not talking? Join us for the first event hosted
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Thank you to Women in Big Data (WiBD) and DataBricks for organizing the Women in Big Data Spark Summit Panel and Lunch on June 7, 2017. The session was well attended by at least 150 women. Soumya Guptha, Marketing Manager from Intel, kicked off the session off with an introduction to WiBD. Next, Ziya Ma,
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Women in Big Data and SAP hosted a great evening that featured speakers from SAP, Google and Nvidia discussing Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, etc., from their respective company views and from their respective personal views. Special thank you to SAP for the venue and to these ladies for their time and expertise: Nazanin
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On April 27, 2017, an enthusiastic crowd of sixty-one women turned up as Cloudflower’s Lukas Biewald conducted a class on Python and Scikit-Learn. Sponsored by the Women in Big Data Forum, the class took place at the MapR campus in San Jose, California. Lukas is the founder and Chief Data Scientist for Crowdflower and an expert
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What do… – Sixty women – Two men – One six-year old boy… … have in common? They all attended the hand’s on Big Data Workshop hosted by the East Coast chapter of the WiBD Forum. Tracy Swensson was there too, and reports in her blog. Find out more.
The Women in Big Data Workshop, May 4, 2017 Forty-seven attendees showed up to a packed room at Cloudera HQ to join Bob Loftis in a workshop on Interviewing Skills. Women of many ages, nationalities and points in their careers attended the event, recognizing the need for soft skills training (as hard skills alone are simply not enough to navigate today’s
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Women In Big Data held the very first Members Appreciation Event on the evening of Thursday, April 6, hosted by Intel at the SC-12 Auditorium. This was the very first time all members were invited to a single event, after having grown from only 15 members to over 1900 in the past two years! The goal of
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On April 4, 2017, Amita Ekbote and Susan Huynh, both of Mesosphere, Inc., presented on DC/OS, Mesosphere’s datacenter operating system. Mesosphere hosted the event at their San Francisco headquarters. Over pizza and beer, attendees got the “10,000 foot” introduction to DC/OS and its components as well as a detailed demo. Amita Ekbote began with a
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Women in Big Data – East Quarter 1 Newsletter April 7th, 2017 Chapter News We are happy to announce that the Women in Big Data East Coast Chapter has a new satellite launched by Rachel Silver in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh satellite chapter of Women in Big Data East boasts ~45 members and is gearing up
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Be Congruent: Your Successes and Values Drive Your Career On March 6, 2017, Robert (Bob) Loftis presented a career-oriented workshop for members of the Women in Big Data Forum entitled “Be Congruent: Your Successes and Values Drive Your Career,” sponsored by Andreessen Horowitz. During the workshop, Bob had us prioritize our personal values to
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