By Lilian Lau. Titled “Different Strokes for Data Folks,” the Toronto chapter of Women in Big Data held a bustling meetup on September 26, 2018. Over 75 members gathered to discover how four industry professionals harness the power of big data in their specific industries. First, Zahra Zahid from Slalom Consulting walked us through the pros
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The Women in Big Data Luncheon at the Strata Data event in New York City was held on Wednesday September 12, 2018. It was sponsored by Intel, SAP and Women in Big Data, and over 200 guests attended the event. We had an engaging panel discussion by Clare Gollnick, Ziya Ma and Karuna Mukherjea, and Fadi Zuhayri served as the moderator. Fadi, Ziya, Karuna, Clare
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In its biggest and most diverse event to date, Women in Big Data’s™ North West Chapter Networking Committee presented Technology Panel: Big Data and Machine Learning to an enthusiastic audience of 150 people. The event took place August 9, 2018 at Intel’s Hawthorne Farm Auditorium in Hillsboro, Oregon, and the topics covered included technical challenges,
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Recent years have seen an emerging trend of big data and analytics becoming critical to support advancements in a vast majority of fields and businesses. These include research, industry, finance and human resources. Supporting diversity and inspiring growth in this challenging technological field, the Women in Big Data™ (WiBD) group for the EMEA Region continues
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By Roselyn Byrd Introduction Co-founding lead for Women in Big Data (WiBD) Radhika Rangarajan and Southern California chapter leads shared best practice insights in April 2018 as they participated in a panel at the second annual University Recruiting Conference, dubbed “URx,” in San Francisco, California. Co-founders of SoCal WiBD April Zeng and Lily Salem, as well
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By April Zeng The Women in Big Data SoCal Chapter partnered with PyLadies of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California (USC ) Marshall School of Business Masters of Science in Business Analytics program to host our first tech training in June 2018. Our goal was to help members gain additional skills to excel
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With a lively crowd of over 50 members, our Toronto chapter of Women in Big Data had their first meetup on June 13, 2018! During the event, we uncovered the different roles and functions that work with big data. We also explored how different industries interact and use big data through an interactive panel discussion.
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Women in Big Data Munich hosted another meetup at Google premises on 14 June, 2018. Around ninety attendees enjoyed the occasion in the conference area of Google office space. The meetup started with an introduction of Women in Big Data by Nahia Orduna, Principal Solution Architect in Vodafone and WiBD Munich Chapter Lead. She explained
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By Rosa Elena Lorenzana With exceptional collaboration from Google Cloud and Pluto 7, Women in Big Data (WiBD) were honored to host a group of ~60 attendees at Google campus in Sunnyvale, CA on May 23, 2018. The event was focused on adoption of Google Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) across different industry verticals.
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By Sunita Sharma, Solution Architect April, 2018 This article highlights the importance of Object storage and how it can improve performance with Hadoop. You can download a PDF of this paper here. Introduction to Hadoop: Hadoop is an open source software platform.It is widely used for processing large volume of data processing at massive scale.
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