big data

On the 28th April for the first ever 24-hour global data science hackathon will take place bringing Data Scientists around the world together to try and improve improve the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index.

Do you want to meet other passionate people about Big Data in a beautiful London location and take part in a debate with some of the brightest minds on the planet? Featured Hilary Mason, Bit.ly Chief Scientist, Doug Cutting, Apache Hadoop Co-founder with drinks & nibbles from Oracle.

Big Data Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world across not only technology but also the commercial use cases for Big Data.

Big Data Week is one of the world’s most unique global platforms, offering a series of interconnected activities and conversations around the world across not only technology but also the commercial use cases for Big Data.

We're tying in with our friends at Social Media Week for Londata II, to look at the opportunities presented by the vast volumes of social media data being generated every day. We have three great companies speaking: SoDash, Level Business and Polecat

PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference, building on the success of previous events by expanding to a double-day event, to accommodate the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions.

Londata is the event for people doing interesting things with data. It's particularly for people who are interested in how to put data to work, creating commercial and/or social value as you go.

Irrespective of what we call them the Screenagers, Generation Y, millennials, digital natives or the Facebook generation; we all agree that they are driving new digital services. Often, in a discussion of next generation services and privacy their voice is ignored. Therefore, we ask: Should we teach the Screenagers or should we learn from them.

Alvin Richards discusses Schema Design, Replication & Sharding and how they affect building a scalable system with MongoDB.

In this talk, Tom Wilkie looks at Castle -- the core of the Acunu Data Platform, delivering up to 100x higher performance for applications written for Cassandra and other tools.

Neo4j experts and Neo4j user group organisers, Ian Robinson and Jim Webber, bring their intensive two-day Neo4j tutorial to Skills Matter. Delivered this November by Jim Webber, the Neo4J tutorial provides a mixture of theory and hands-on practical sessions to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and the Neo4j database.