Open Analytics DC Summit Recap

Over 120 data analysts, scientists, CTO’s and more descended on Arlington, VA through sleet and snow for the first ever Open Analytics Summit.

Presentations

The day started with Chris Kenly’s keynote on ‘Why is Open Source the Answer for Big Data Analytics?’ The theme of open Analytics continued throughout the day with talks ranging from ‘Analytics with NoSQL’ and “Developing a Visual Data Standard” to “Sentiment Analysis at Scale” and “Building an API on OMB’s Public Budget Database.”

We wanted to provide the presentations to both attendees and those who were not able to attend. All presentations are embedded at the bottom of this post and here are the links:

• Enterprise_Knowledge_Graph- Sumeet Vij
  
• Mongo Lessons Learned - Andrew Glover
• Power of Graph Analysis - James Kobielus
• Open Analytics - Charlie Greenbacker
• Analytics Counting - Matt Abrams
• Analyzing Twitter Data with Hadoop - Joey Echeverria
• Video Analytics - Kevin Lenane
• Creating an API using the OMB’s Public Budget Database - Ryan Harvey
• Analytics-NoSQL - Edouard Servan-Schreiber
• Building Effective Framework for Social Media Analysis - Josh Liss
• The Value of Open Source Software - Eddie Pickle
• Data Science in the Now - Anthony Nyström

Keep the Conversation Going

The chance to converse and meet colleagues working in the analytics space was incredibly rewarding for everyone present. Many people asked about how to connect and continue these discussions with speakers and attendees. We have three ways to connect and continue discussions from the conference:

1. Join the Open Analytics Meet Up Groups for more in-person events and learning opportunities
2. Join the Open Analytics LinkedIn group to discuss and share links and best practices
3. Join the Open Analytics Google+ group for threaded discussions and best practices

We also had the chance to take photos throughout the event. Feel free to view and use any of those photos. If you do use them, please provide a link back to this site.

It was a true pleasure pushing the field of open analytics forward at the Open Analytics Summit. We’ll be hosting more events in the near future so any feedback or recommendations you have, please share with us.

Thank you for attending the conference. See you soon.

Open Analytics Presentations

Video Analytics from Kevin Lenane of Veenome
Analytics-NoSQL - Edouard Servan-Schreiber
Creating an API using the OMB’s Public Budget Database from Ryan Harvey of the University of Maryland
Data Science in the Now - Anthony Nyström