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November 22, 2019

Free Big Data Workshop Dec. 3-4

Submitted by Daniel Andresen

The Beocat staff will host a two-day Big Data Workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 3-4 in the Big 12 Room of the K-State Student Union. This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom training platform.

The workshop is free and no programming experience is required. Please bring your own laptop.

Register for the workshop online.

Workshop schedule:

Tuesday, Dec. 3

  • 10 a.m. — Welcome
  • 10:25 a.m. — Intro to Big Data
  • 11 a.m. — Hadoop
  • 11:30 a.m. — Intro to Spark
  • Noon — Lunch break
  • 1 p.m. — Spark
  • 3:45 p.m. — Bridges: A Big Data Platform
  • 4 p.m. — Adjourn


Wednesday, Dec. 4

  • 10 a.m. — Machine Learning: Recommender System with Spark
  • Noon — Lunch break
  • 1 p.m. — Deep Learning with Tensorflow
  • 4 p.m. — Adjourn