Data Cluster

When:: Sunday March 14th 6pm - 9pm
Where:: Opal Divine's Freehouse,
700 W 6th Street 78701 (map below)
What:: Free Food, Wicked Smart People,
and Data-Driven Conversation
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DATA CLUSTER MEETUP

JOIN US FOR A DATA MEETUP

March 14 - 6PM @ Opal Divine's, 700 W 6th St 78701

Last year a twitter conversation among three data geeks accidentally turned into a 30+ person data meetup — with no planning, nowhere near enough chairs, and yet a total success. Clearly, the web's largest yearly convention needs a gathering of data geeks.

So here it is, bigger, better, and with free food. We're still keeping it simple, though: get a whole bunch of really smart data geeks together, set up group discussions and a round of lightning talks, but leave the majority of time for people who admire each other's work to meet and exchange ideas.

ALMOST SOLD OUT - RSVP soon! Data nerds taking over Austin!

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Brainstorm discussion topics and see who’s coming via Twitter and Facebook.

Act I: Non-relational Database Smackdown

Stu Hood of the Cassandra project will lead a discussion that will debate the merits of various non-relational databases.

FACING OFF:

Cassandra core team committer Stu Hood (Rackspace)
CouchDB core team committer Jan Lehnardt (Apache)
MongoDB evangelist Wynn Netherland (Orrka, TweetCongress)
... expert in another scalable DB tech? If you're brave enough to step up, email us.

Act II: Birds of a Feather:

We'll have 5 birds-of-a-feather sessions, with discussions led by rockstars in each topic:

Operations (managing data) -- led by Harper Reed of Rackspace and ex-Threadless
Analytics (exploring data) -- led by Toby Jungen, NLP + Hadoop expert and chief architect at Swingly
Web Apps (humanizing data) -- led by Joe West of knowmore
Visualization (seeing data) - led by Cyborg Anthropologist and Dataviz Curator Amber Case
Open Data (freeing data) -- led by Gil Elbaz, Founder/CEO of Factual and CommonCrawl founder and Dhruv Bansal, rockstar physicist and cofounder of Infochimps

Otherwise: Mingling

The majority of time, though, will be left free for people to talk, eat, and network.

MAP & DIRECTIONS

Opal Divine's is convenient to the convention center but outside the realm of immediate madness. It features great selections of beer and scotch, and a waitstaff knowlegable about each.

To get there, take a quick walk straight down 6th street.
…or an even faster bus ride from 6th & Trinity at 6:05, drops off in front of Opal Divine's. Pull the cord when you see the “Katz's” sign.
…or an even funner pedicab. You pay only by tip; agree on a price in advance.

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