Big Data Applied

David Strom314 277 7832

STL TDWI December 2013

Agenda

• Vendor landscape, users, skills• Mapping apps• Real world examples• Some lessons learned

Three skills for big data analysts

• Strategic data planning. Understand how data is the new raw material for any modern business.

• Analytical skills. Reporters have always been smart about asking the right questions, but now they have to dig through the data too.

• Technology skills. Embrace the technology and make it a key part of your reporting skill set.

Riot Games Current BI Stack

• Honu: Streaming log collection and event processing pipeline

• Platfora: BI analysis and visualization• Oozie: Workflow job scheduler• Hive: Data warehouse and queries• Chef: Code deployment and configuration management• GitHub: Versioning and tracking of programs• Jenkins: Build system management• Eureka: Service discovery process

Lessons learned

Don’t be religious!

Use maps!

Local Big Data Meetups

Stay in touch

• Copies of this presentation: http://slideshare.net/davidstrom

• My blog: http://strominator.com• Follow me on Twitter: @dstrom• Old school: david@strom.com

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