Review of the Open Analytics Summit in New York City
Open Analytics in New York City
Over 140 data analysts, CMO’s, data scientists, CTO’s and more navigated the streets of New York City on June 17th, 2013 for the second Open Analytics Summit, the first in NYC.
| Open Analytics Summit New York City |
Presentations
The day started at 404NYC with Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, the VP of Data Science at Acxiom’s Global Consulting Division. He provided understanding of what Big Data is and the 7 V’s of Big Data along with the KARMA score to avoid some of the serious pitfalls in leveraging Big Data.
Michael Kaushansky, EVP and Chief Analytics Officer of Havas Media, followed with a look at mobile attribution and IKANOW’s own Chris Morgan took a look at creating value from open source data using Infinit.e and R.
The rest of the conference built on the themes of Big Data, open analytics tools and case studies of how data is used in a variety of industries. Here is a complete list of speakers along with a link to their presentations with the embedded presentations at the end of the post:
- Measuring How Users Consume Content on the Web, Josh Schwartz, Chartbeat
- Data Workflows at Foursquare Using Luigi, Joe Ennever, Foursquare
- Data Science in the Now! It Takes an Army of Tools, Anthony Nyström, Intridea
- Predictive Analytics in Social Media and Online Display Advertising, Mahesh Kumar, Tiger Analytics
- Extracting Truth from Multi-structured Data, Dan Mallinger, Think Big Analytics
- Beyond the Warehouse, ETL and Modeling: Fundamentally Changing Analytics with Transactional Data, Noel Clarke, OpTier
- Real-Time Care & Feeding, Drew Raines, Elasticsearch
- From the Battlefield to the Bottom Line: Using Multi-Nodal Network Analysis to Detect Financial Risk, Christopher Kenly, Aveshka
- How Open Data and Predictive Modeling were used in the 2012 Obama Campaign, Tiffany Washburn and Carol Davidsen
- Hadoop Meets Mature BI: Where the Rubber Meets the Road for Data Scientists, Michael Hiskey, Kognitio
- NoSQL and SQL Work Side-by-Side to Tackle Real-Time Big Data Needs, Allen Day, MapR Technologies
- Developments and Challenges in Social Media Measurement, Joe Shantz, Porter Novelli
- Geospatial Web Analytics: The Missing Link, Alyssa Wright, OpenGeo
- Big Data and the RTB Buying Platform: A Use Case, Balaji Rao, Accordant Media
- Realizing Business Value From Open Source Data and Open Source Intelligence, Chris Morgan, IKANOW
- Mobile Attribution, Michael Kaushansky, Havas Media
- Big Data Analytics and Pitfalls to Avoid, Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy, Acxiom’s Global Consulting Division
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 two 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. Help us write the Open Analytics Guide. We’re taking advice from experts like you to crowdsource a book on using open analytics. Click here to submit your advice and request your copy.
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.
Thank you for attending the conference. See you soon.
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