oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/cj_date.jpgC.J. Date
View Updating: How to Make it Work
By C.J. Date | January 30, 2013
In this webcast presentation, the overall message is: Views in general are just as updatable as base tables are! Attend this webcast and see why this isn't as extravagant a claim as it might seem.
Strata Online Conference: Data Warfare
By Alistair Croll | January 22, 2013
From public policy to elections, from healthcare to the battlefield, our lives rely on the analysis of abundant, connected data. But if data is infrastructure, then that infrastructure's vulnerable. Enemies can confound, confuse, distort, and mislead...
What Business People Need to Know About Data Governance
By Micheline Casey | January 15, 2013
In this webcast, Micheline Casey provides an overview of data governance and data management principles that should be applied to big data projects.
How EMI is Changing the Culture of the Music Industry
By David Boyle | January 08, 2013
In this exclusive webcast, David Boyle will look at how EMI changed itself, and the music industry, by moving from gut instinct and opinions to a data-informed business.
Responsibly Sharing Data Under HIPAA
By Khaled El Emam | October 31, 2012
In this webcast presentation we will first provide an overview of how data can be re-identified, with reference to a number of recent real world examples. This will be followed by a description of how to de-identify health data in a defensible way according...
Bayesian Statistics Made Simple
By Allen B. Downey | October 26, 2012
Join Allen Downey, author of Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers for an introduction to Bayesian statistics using Python. Bayesian statistical methods are becoming more common and more important, but there are not many resources to...
oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/benjamin_yoskovitz.jpgBenjamin Yoskovitz
Understanding the Value of Lean Analytics: Using Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
By Benjamin Yoskovitz | October 25, 2012
The Lean movement has revolutionized how we create products and companies today. It focuses on customer development and tackling the risky parts first. At the core of this is iteration—a cycle of learning and adapting that's driven by data. Lean...
How to Develop Language Annotations for Machine Learning Algorithms
By James Pustejovsky, Amber Stubbs | October 16, 2012
Text-based data mining and information extraction systems that make use of machine learning techniques require annotated datasets for training the algorithms. In this webcast we will discuss the steps involved in creating your own training corpus for...
Healthcare 101: Cradle to Grave
By J. Tod Fetherling | October 12, 2012
J. Tod Fetherling presents this 90 minute white board session walking the user through every aspect of the healthcare system from wellness to death.
Python for Data Analysis
By Wes McKinney | October 10, 2012
In this hands-on webcast presented by Wes McKinney, author of Python for Data Analysis , he will showcase a number of examples and you will receive an introduction to some of the most important tools in the Python language for data preparation, data ...
Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine
By Julie Steele | October 05, 2012
In this free online conference we will discuss how Microsoft Research has developed a new version of the Linear Mixed Model algorithm that is not only computationally inexpensive, but also is better at finding the true signals that account statistically...
Strata + Hadoop World: Join the Data Revolution
By Alistair Croll | October 03, 2012
In this free online conference, we preview some of the hot topics, provocative speakers, and game-changing innovations that are fueling the growth of a data-driven society.
An Introduction to Machine Learning for Hackers
By John Myles White, Drew Conway | September 18, 2012
We'll introduce programmers to two of the most common tools in the machine learning toolkit: linear regression and logistic regression.
Choosing Hardware for Hadoop
By Lars George | August 15, 2012
In this webcast we will look at popular reference architectures used by companies across several business verticals, discuss their pros and cons, and their applicability to different use-cases, and conclude with best-practice advise on hardware selection...
Data in Motion
By Kaitlin Thaney, Alistair Croll, Jacomo Corbo, Simon Williams, Neal Lathia, John Graham-Cumming | July 24, 2012
In this Strata Online Conference, we'll look at data and movement across a variety of sports and industries.
Get the (Data) Vote Out
By Edd Dumbill | June 20, 2012
In this Strata Online Event, we'll look at the way data science is shaping elections, from visualizations to game theory, from understanding issues to targeting voters.
oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/steve_francia.jpgSteve Francia
MongoDB and PHP
By Steve Francia | May 18, 2012
In this webcast presentation by Steve Francia, author of MongoDB and PHP, you will learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.
O'Reilly Strata Online Conference
By Alistair Croll | May 16, 2012
Join us for our seventh Strata online conference, as we look at Data That Matters.
Tim O'Reilly and Dave Campbell Explore How to Accelerate Insights from Data
By Tim O'Reilly, David Campbell | May 14, 2012
Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, talks with Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell about new tools for data.
oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/alan_gates.jpgAlan Gates
Current and Upcoming Work in Pig
By Alan Gates | May 10, 2012
In this webcast, we will cover how Pig can take advantage of changes in Hadoop 0.23.
Under the iceberg: Using APIs to transform your business
By Gregory Brail, Daniel Jacobson, Dan Woods | March 22, 2012
In this webcast presentation join Dan Jacobson , Greg Brail, and Dan Woods as they discuss how business leaders can use APIs to transform as a strategy to transform business through private and public APIs.
MongoDB Schema Design: How to Think Non-Relational
By Jared Rosoff | February 17, 2012
In this webcast we'll provide a number of data modeling rules of thumb, and discuss the tradeoffs of various data modeling strategies.
An Introduction to Ethics of Big Data
By Kord Davis | February 16, 2012
The material will address the intersection of ethics and Big Data; what it is and what it isn't. Specifically, how to approach and generate dialog about an abstract subject with direct, real-world implications.
Take Control of iCloud
By Joe Kissell | February 03, 2012
In this webcast, veteran Mac author Joe Kissell explains what iCloud can do for you, how to deal with configuration puzzles and compatibility issues, and how best to manage the transition from MobileMe.
Developing with .NET and Couchbase Server
By John Zablocki | January 27, 2012
In this webcast John Zablocki, Developer Advocate at Couchbase, will introduce the .NET client library for Couchbase Server.
O'Reilly Strata Online Conference
By Alistair Croll | December 07, 2011
In this online event, we'll look at how Big Data stacks and analytical approaches are gradually finding their way into organizations, as well as the roadblocks that can thwart efforts to become more data-driven.
Social Network Analysis -- Finding communities and influencers
By Maksim Tsvetovat | December 06, 2011
A follow-on to Analyzing Social Networks on Twitter, this webcast will concentrate on the social component of Twitter data rather then the questions of data gathering and decomposition.
HBase Coprocessors - Deploy shared functionality directly on the cluster
By Lars George | November 04, 2011
This session explains the concepts behind coprocessors and uses examples to show how they can be used to implement data side extensions to the application code.
The Evolution from Private to Public: Is There Privacy in the Digital Age?
By Jim Adler, danah boyd, Terence Craig, Natalie Fonseca, Heather West | October 28, 2011
Join the panelists as they consider the evolution from private to public: how are our worlds colliding in the digital age?
oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/lars_george.jpgLars George
HBase Schema Design - Things you need to know
By Lars George | October 14, 2011
This session discusses the basic underlying concepts of the storage layer in HBase and how an application should be combined with the appropriate schema to achieve the best possible performance.
oreillynet.com/images/people/weblogs/allen_downey.jpgAllen B. Downey
There's Only One Test
By Allen B. Downey | October 04, 2011
People working with real data are often confused about hypothesis testing and paralyzed by the number of tests and their requirements. In this webcast, Allen B. Downey, author of Think Stats, presents a framework for using simple simulations to estimate...
Privacy and Big Data: Is there room for privacy in the age of big data?
By Terence Craig, Mary Ludloff | September 14, 2011
In this webcast, Terence Craig and Mary Ludloff, authors of Privacy and Big Data, ask and answer thi
