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NYC Data Week Calendar

NYC Data Week celebrates and explores the people, industries, and organizations using data to fuel innovation in New York City. Events include a Startup Showcase with Fred Wilson and Tim O'Reilly, Ignite NYC @Strata, a hackathon, numerous meetups, and more. Most NYC Data Week events are free, and anyone can attend or add to the calendar. Join the data celebration!   #NYCDataWeek

NYC Data Week is co-produced by the City of New York's Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) and O'Reilly Media's Strata + Hadoop World Conference.

The city's data highlights also include Etsy Loves New York and other interactive data visualizations, the new Big Data Journal, and the Hire + Expand Lower Manhattan (HELM) competition, with several $250,000 cash prizes.

Monday

• IBM Big Data Developer Day • Oct 22 • 8:00am–6:00pm • IBM Client Center, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY

  Experience IBM’s enterprise-class big data platform at IBM's Big Data Developer Day hosted by the IBM Big Data Development team. The morning will include interactive discussions and live demonstrations of big data for social media and log analytics, then get hands on with Hadoop scripting and text analytics with guidance from development experts. Seating is limited and you must register to be guaranteed a seat. Register today!

• Big Data Camp • Oct 22 • 5:30pm–10:00pm • Hilton New York, Murray Hill Suite, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  An unconference for users of Hadoop and related Big Data technologies, with community-proposed topics, Lightning Talks, and Unconference sessions. Hosted by Dave Nielson.

• Ignite NYC • Oct 22 • 6:30pm–8:45pm • Sheraton New York, Metropolitan Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street, New York

  5-minute speed presentations with a data focus, in the fields of technology, business and the arts. Organized by Tikva Morowato, Director of Ignite NYC. $10 registration fee.

• Using Linked Open Data Rocket Boosters to slay your Big Data Wrangling Dragons! • Oct 22 • 6:30pm–6:35pm • Hilton NY, Murray Hill Suite, 1335 Ave of the Americas (during Big Data Camp Lightening Talks)

  NYC is DataGotham - the Empire State of Data! And it is blazing a trail in the Open Data world as well with its unparalleled, landmark Open Data Law that will unearth a goldmine of City-related data. Find out how to use Linked Data (Web 3.0) techniques to minimize your Data Wrangling troubles and get current, high-quality open data to power your Open Data innovations!

• Mini Maker Faire • Oct 22 • 8:00pm–10:00pm • Sheraton New York, Metropolitan West Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street, New York

  A showcase of innovative data-related hardware, apps, and projects selected from research, academia, and yet-to-be-discovered entrepreneurs. Organized by the O'Reilly Make team.

Tuesday

• DataKind DataSprint • Oct 23 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street, New York

  All-day hackathon focused on a critical New York City data project. DataKind is incredibly excited to announce that we will be setting up shop all day at the Strata NY Conference on October 23rd with a bunch of great data problems for you to stop by and work on! We will be serving non-profits and charities, using data to to solve some of their toughest problems, so bring your data skills and get ready to make the world a better place. If you're a socially conscious data hacker who wants to make the world a better place, RSVP now! Entrance to our DataSprint is completely free.

• Data Visualization Showcase • Oct 23 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Hilton New York, Level 2, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  The Data Visualization Showcase at Strata + Hadoop World highlights particularly successful visualizations that provide new insight and relevance to big data across a broad range of topics.

• Strata Conference + Hadoop World • Oct 23 • 9:00am–5:30pm • Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  The Strata NY and Hadoop World Conference explores the changes brought to technology and business by big data, data science, and pervasive computing. Strata brings together decision makers using the raw power of big data to drive business strategy, and practitioners who collect, analyze, and manipulate that data—particularly in the worlds of finance, media, and government. $1095 to $1545 registration fee.

• Data Sensing Lab • Oct 23 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  We intend to give people a taste of the super-connected world that is ahead of all of us. By instrumenting the Strata NY conference environment with basic off-the-shelf sensors and mesh networking, we will observe and report on the conference, and generate interesting sociological data from the distributed sensor network. This data will then be analyzed in real time at Strata NY, with the results presented in the keynote sessions, which are live streamed. From hardware and software, to data analysis and visualization, the project will give people a taste of their lives in a more measured and quantified world.

• Sqoop meetup • Oct 23 • 6:00pm–8:00pm • PulsePoint, 345 Hudson Street, 5th Floor, New York

  Un-conference style sessions and networking on Sqoop. An agenda will be posted as we near the event. If you have a topic you would like to present or discuss, please contact the meetup organizer, Kathleen Ting.

• NYC Data Business Meetup • Oct 23 • 6:00pm–9:00pm • Bloomberg Headquarters, 731 Lexington Avenue (between 58th and 59th Streets)

  What does the smart money think about trends, opportunities and challenges for big data and data-driven startups? This month we are very fortunate to have a "dream panel" with some of the very best venture capitalists in the field, from both coasts: Mike Abbott of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, Ping Lee of Accel Partners, and Matt Ocko of Data Collective. Pre-registration on the Meetup site is absolutely required; no walk-ins.

• StartOut Demo Night • Oct 23 • 6:00pm–9:30pm • Tribeca Grand Hotel; 2 Avenue of the Americas; New York

  StartOut, NYTM and Silicon Valley Bank are pleased to invite you to StartOut Demo Day + Networking, where members of the StartOut community will pitch their ideas and demo their startups to the community and potential investors. In addition, there will be ample time for you to hear what other members are working on, share ideas, offer services, talk with other like-minded individuals, and build your network within the community. Please join us for a fun and interesting evening!

• Displaying Data on Mobile Devices • Oct 23 • 6:30pm–8:30pm • Hilton New York, Murray Hill Suite, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  Join Hacks/Hackers NYC at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 23 when we take a look at journalism, reporting and display of data on mobile devices. Speakers include Luke Miller, senior UX architect and mobile lead for The Wall Street Journal, and Zach Seward from Quartz, newly launched at qz.com.

• Startup Showcase • Oct 23 • 6:30pm–8:00pm • Sheraton New York, Metropolitan Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street, New York

  Showcase of 12 to 15 data-focused startups, demonstrating their innovations. At the end of the showcase, judges Tim O'Reilly and Fred Wilson will choose and interview three companies whose technology, team, and offering stand apart from the rest. Plans are shaping up for a surprise guest to deliver the Data Week Proclamation from the City of New York at this event.

• Google Developer's Group - Big Query, OAuth 2.0, Big Data with Go • Oct 23 • 6:30pm–8:30pm • Google NYC, 111 8th Avenue, New York (use entrance closest to 15th St., proceed to 10th Floor)

  Crunching Big Data with Google BigQuery. Applications which grow to web-scale generate massive amounts of data. Many developers end up throwing this data away because they can not extract value from it without the necessary expertise or infrastructure. Google knows Big Data -- our infrastructure processes 60 hours of YouTube video uploads every minute and many of our products have hundreds of millions of users. Google has developed custom technologies to analyze this data and make intelligent product decisions. We have started to open up some of these technologies as APIs which allow developers to concentrate on their business problems, while Google handles the underlying infrastructure. Speakers include Ryan Boyd, Bob Hancock, and Anthony Starks. See details on the Meetup page.

• Hadoop Meetup • Oct 23 • 7:00pm–10:00pm • FourSquare freight entrance, 110 Crosby St (between Houston and Prince), 10th floor, New York

  A series of short talks on Hadoop followed by an unconference-style meetup. Talk 1 - Paul Mackles will discuss how Adobe uses Hadoop streaming, Hive and Python to create a simple and scalable "log ingestion" platform. Talk 2 - Tsuyoshi Ozawa will talk about multi-level MapTask aggregation to improve MapReduce shuffle cost. Talk 3 - Junping Du will present on his efforts to make Hadoop aware of virtual infrastructure for enhanced reliability and performance.

• MongoDB Meetup • Oct 23 • 7:00pm–9:00pm • Hilton New York, Sutton South Room, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  Terence Craig of Pattern Builders, speaks on "MongoDB, Analytics, and Azure", and James Dixon, Pentaho, speaks on "Now, How Do I Report and Analyze Against MongoDB?"

• Apache Hive Meetup • Oct 23 • 7:00pm • Hilton New York, Concourse B, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  A series of short 15 minute talks on Apache Hive followed by un-conference style sessions and networking.

• DataGotham at Strata • Oct 23 • 7:30pm–9:00pm • Hilton New York, Beekman Parlor + Sutton North Room, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  New York is data. New York's data community exists across industries, startups, academia and government. A few weeks ago we gathered at DataGotham to share our practice around understanding human behavior from data. DataGotham at Strata will bring you a taste of New York's data community, with some of our strongest speakers on topics like influence in social networks, statistics in sports and fashion, and the beauty of normalization. This event will be comprised of several short talks. Current speakers include: Fred Benson, Data Engineer at Kickstarter; Jake Porway, Data Scientist; and Max Shron, Data Strategy Consultant. Join us! Hosted by Hilary Mason and Mike Dewar.

• Platfora Launch Party • Oct 23 • 8:00pm–10:00pm • AVA Lounge, Dream Hotel, 210 West 55th Street, New York

  On the eve of the biggest data event of the year, Platfora will be celebrating in style at the AVA Lounge in the Dream Hotel. If you want in, let us know - there are a few spots left. RSVP to amazing@platfora.com.

Wednesday

• Business Data Monetization with GoodData • Oct 24 • 7:30am–8:30pm • Flexible location

  Gooddata offers a secure, multi-tenant, cloud-hosted Business Data Monetization platform that provides an on-demand, ad-hoc reporting environment viewable on any modern browser regardless of device. The GoodData platform can be deployed across lines of business to connect any data sources (sales, marketing, finance, support, engineering, customer, web or on-prem) and allow insight via bashes (business mash-ups) such as GoodSales, GoodMarketing, GoodSubscription etc. We are looking forward to meeting with any interested parties to discuss how we Monetize Business Data, and are flexible with regards to meeting location & timing. Please contact Scott Anderson to coordinate scheduling. scott.anderson@gooddata.com 503.820.2937

• Data Visualization Showcase • Oct 24 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Hilton New York, Level 2, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  The Data Visualization Showcase at Strata + Hadoop World highlights particularly successful visualizations that provide new insight and relevance to big data across a broad range of topics.

• The Future of Security • Oct 24 • 9:00am–3:30pm • Theresa Lang Community and Student Center; The New School; 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor

  The Future of Security: Ethical Hacking, Big Data and the Crowd conference will convene a daylong series of discussions to highlight the emerging, disruptive forces changing the landscape of the global community. Key panels include the following topic areas: Ethical Hacking / Hacktivism; Big Data and Networks; and The Crowd and Crowdsourced Science. Organized by the The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM), The Center for Transformative Media (CTM) of Parsons The New School for Design, and The Richard Lounsbery Foundation

• Data Sensing Lab • Oct 24 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  We intend to give people a taste of the super-connected world that is ahead of all of us. By instrumenting the Strata NY conference environment with basic off-the-shelf sensors and mesh networking, we will observe and report on the conference, and generate interesting sociological data from the distributed sensor network. This data will then be analyzed in real time at Strata NY, with the results presented in the keynote sessions, which are live streamed. From hardware and software, to data analysis and visualization, the project will give people a taste of their lives in a more measured and quantified world.

• Data Innovation in Finance Panel • Oct 24 • 6:00pm–7:30pm • Hilton New York, Murray Hill Suite, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  This panel brings together an esteemed group of industry experts to explore the status of data innovation in finance. This lively and informative discussion will explore the role that larger institutions play in encouraging a vibrant ecosystem of sustained innovation. The event will include time for the panelists to field questions from the audience, as well as an opportunity to connect with them directly during a networking session. Panel with NYC financial institutions, focused on innovative data projects and services in the world of finance. Moderator is Ann Li, Managing Director, Center for Economic Transformation, NYC Economic Development Corporation. Panelists include: Maria Gotsch, President & CEO, New York City Investment Fund; Ramneek Gupta, Managing Director, Citi Ventures; Matt Turck, Managing Director, Bloomberg Ventures; and Larry Lerner, Senior Executive, Accenture Analytics at Accenture.

• Designing Data Visualizations • Oct 24 • 6:15pm–8:00pm • See meetup website for details

  This talk by Noah Illinsky is about the process of visualization design; how to get from a blank page and a pile of data to a useful data visualization. We will focus on the design process, not specific tools. We will discuss how to figure out what story to tell, select the right data, and pick appropriate graph type, as well as visual encodings (symbols, shapes, colors, etc.). The goal is to learn how to create a visualization that conveys appropriate knowledge to a specific audience (which may include the designer). Noah Iliinsky is the co-author of Designing Data Visualizations and technical editor of, and a contributor to, Beautiful Visualization, published By OReilly Media. He has spent the last several years thinking, writing, and speaking about best practices for designing information visualizations. He also works in interface and interaction design, all from a functional and user-centered perspective.

• Strata + Hadoop World NYC Pig Meetup • Oct 24 • 6:30pm–7:30pm • Hilton New York, Beekman Parlor + Sutton North Room, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  For our inaugural meetup, we're honored to have Apache Pig VP Daniel Dai of Hortonworks as our speaker. Daniel has worked on Pig for over 3 years, first at Yahoo! and now as part of Hortonworks. Daniel will be discussing the exciting new features in Pig 0.11, including the CUBE operator, a new RANK operator, the addition of a DateTime type, and speed improvements via SchemaTuple. You can view a summary of JIRA tickets for Pig 0.11 here.

• Python Meetup • Oct 24 • 7:00pm • Hilton New York, Sutton Center + South Room, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  This talk from Kurt Brown of Netflix will be on Python use in Data Science & Engineering at Netflix. Some notable areas include a tool (Sting) we built to dynamically filter, aggregate, and visualize Hive data. Sting leverages pandas, NumPy, and CherryPy (among other things). We will also talk through our use of Python for the business logic of all our Pig jobs, our broad use of Python for tools and automation, and how Python use continues to grow throughout Netflix. Additional speakers to be confirmed over the coming weeks, so keep checking the meetup page for more info!

• Apache Accumulo - Strata+ Hadoop World Meetup • Oct 24 • 7:00pm–9:00pm • Hilton New York, Regent Parlor, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  This is a series of short talks, including: Welcome and Introductions by Oren Falkowitz (sqrrl) and Billie Rinaldi (Hortonworks); Introduction to Apache Accumulo and Getting Started with Amazon and Eucalyptus by John Vines (sqrrl); Large Scale Web Analytics with Accumulo (Nutch / Gora, Pig, and Storm) by Jason Trost (End Game Systems); Geospatial Indexing with Accumulo by Jim Klucar; and Compaction and Splitting (Accumulo & HBase) by Billie Rinaldi (Hortonworks).

• Big Data Explained • Oct 24 • 7:00pm–8:30pm • Hilton New York, Nassau Room, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  A lot of people are hearing about Big Data. There is certainly a lot of marketing activity around the phrase. But what exactly is it, another passing fad buzzword, or something more substantial and permanent? How does it work, why is it necessary, and what problems does it solve? What industries are currently using it, and for what use cases? This session will present a fast-paced yet understandable overview of how Big Data works, how it is architected, and how you can use it in your enterprise. Presenter: Jason Wisdom, EMC Greenplum.

Thursday

• Business Data Monetization with GoodData • Oct 25 • 7:30am–8:30pm • Flexible Location

  Gooddata offers a secure, multi-tenant, cloud-hosted Business Data Monetization platform that provides an on-demand, ad-hoc reporting environment viewable on any modern browser regardless of device. The GoodData platform can be deployed across lines of business to connect any data sources (sales, marketing, finance, support, engineering, customer, web or on-prem) and allow insight via bashes (business mash-ups) such as GoodSales, GoodMarketing, GoodSubscription etc. We are looking forward to meeting with any interested parties to discuss how we Monetize Business Data, and are flexible with regards to meeting location & timing. Please contact Scott Anderson to coordinate scheduling. scott.anderson@gooddata.com 503.820.2937

• Data Sensing Lab • Oct 25 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Hilton New York, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  We intend to give people a taste of the super-connected world that is ahead of all of us. By instrumenting the Strata NY conference environment with basic off-the-shelf sensors and mesh networking, we will observe and report on the conference, and generate interesting sociological data from the distributed sensor network. This data will then be analyzed in real time at Strata NY, with the results presented in the keynote sessions, which are live streamed. From hardware and software, to data analysis and visualization, the project will give people a taste of their lives in a more measured and quantified world.

• Data Innovation Across the City Panel • Oct 25 • 6:00pm–7:30pm • Sheraton New York, Metropolitan Ballroom, 811 7th Avenue 53rd Street, New York

  New York City is home to data innovation across many different industries and sectors. This panel will bring together a diverse group of experts to provide a cross section of the exciting data work being done in NYC, and discuss the history and future of data innovation in their respective areas. The industries represented include: beauty/fashion, development, digital/creative, e-commerce, entertainment/media, government, and science/bio-tech. Panel participants include speakers from: Estee Lauder, Etsy, UN Global Pulse, NBC Universal, NY Genome Center, NYC DoITT, and Huge.

• Flume Meetup • Oct 25 • 6:00pm–8:00pm • PulsePoint, 345 Hudson Street, 5th Floor, New York

  Un-conference style sessions and networking on Flume.

• HBase Meetup • Oct 25 • 6:00pm–9:00pm • AppNexus, 28 West 23rd St, 4th Floor, New York

  Talks include: "A Hadoop and HBase Use Case: Scaling the AppNexus Data Pipeline" by AppNexus's Director of Engineering; "Fast Map Reduce over HBase" by Keith Wyss and Casey Stella from Explory; and "Continuuity New HBase Contributions" by Jonathan Gray from Continuuity; followed by networking.

• The Open Internet and the 2012 Election • Oct 25 • 6:00pm–7:30pm • NYU Stern School of Business; 44 West 4th Street; New York, NY

  Join Clay Skirky, Fred Wilson, and Susan Crawford for a conversation about how the dialogue around a free and open Internet has evolved since SOPA/PIPA and the role that it is playing in the 2012 election. Registration: $10.

• Drinks and Data - special pre-PyData edition • Oct 25 • 6:30pm–9:30pm • Dewey's Flat Iron, 210 5th Ave, New York

  What a great reason for another Drinks and Data NYC. Once again, we've reserved the second floor of Dewey's FlatIron on 5th Ave. Dewey's has great appetizers, so you can come straight from the office, lab, sofa, or wherever it is you do your magic. Thanks to our sponsors, Continuum Analytics and PyData NYC, for providing the appetizers. We've invited all the speakers from PyData to join us. If you want to know why Python has emerged as the language for Data Science, this is a great chance. Wes McKinney, author of the O'Reilly book Python for Data Analysis, will be on hand with copies of his new book.

• Zookeeper Meetup • Oct 25 • 6:30pm–8:30pm • Hilton New York, Concourse C, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  An opportunity to present ZooKeeper-related work, discuss new features and talk about the roadmap for 3.4.X and 3.5, as well as meet ZooKeeper folks from all over.

• Cloudera Manager Meetup • Oct 25 • 7:00pm • Hilton New York, Harlem Suite, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

  Meet with engineers and fellow users of Cloudera Manager at a meetup hosted by Cloudera. In this inaugural meeting, we'll be discussing what's coming up in CM, some of the internals, and answering questions.

Friday

• PyData NYC and Hackathon • Oct 26 • 9:00am–5:00pm • Lighthouse International; 111 East 59th Street, Manhattan

  The PyData conference and workshop is a 3-day event for scientists, engineers, and data analysts in the Python community. The conference focuses on techniques and tools for management, analytics, and visualization of data of different types and sizes with particular emphasis on big data. $399 registration fee

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