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In 2013, commodity hardware and computing capacity for storing and processing large and small volumes of data are easily available on demand. The bigger issues pertain to questions of how to scale data processing, handle data diversity, manage infrastructure costs, decide which technologies work best for different contexts and problems, and build products from the insights and intelligence that the data is presenting to you.
The Fifth Elephant 2013 is a three-day workshop and conference on big data, storage and analytics, with product demos and hacker corners.
Event format, themes and submission guidelines
The Fifth Elephant 2013 invites proposals on use cases and real-life examples. Tell us what specific problem you faced, which technology/tools worked for your use case and why, how you have developed business intelligence on the data you are collecting, and analytics tools and techniques you employ. Our preference is for showcasing original work with clear take-aways for the audience. Please emphasize these in your proposal.
The conference will have two parallel tracks on 12th and 13th July:
- Storage: OLTP, messaging and notifications, databases and big data, NoSQL
- Analytics: Metrics and tools, cloud computing, mathematical modelling and statistical analysis, visualization
Workshops
This year we are adding a preliminary day of workshops, on 11th July, to provide attendees more in-depth, hands-on training on open source frameworks and tools (Pig, Hadoop, Hive, etc), commercial solutions (sponsored), programming languages such as R, and visualization techniques and tricks, among others.
Product demos and sponsored sessions
We have a demo track for startups and companies who want to showcase their product to customers at The Fifth Elephant 2013 and get feedback. Slots are also open for 4-6 sponsored sessions for companies who want to talk about their technologies and reach out to developers, CTOs, CIOs and product managers at The Fifth Elephant. For more information on demo and sponsored session proposals, write to info@hasgeek.com.
Commitment to open source
HasGeek believes in open source as the foundation of the internet. Our aim is to strengthen these foundations for future generations. If your talk describes a codebase for developers to work with, we require that it is available under a license that does not impose itself on subsequent work. This is typically a permissive open source license (almost anything that is listed at opensource.org/licenses and is not GPL or AGPL), but restrictive and commercial licenses are also considered depending on how they affect the developer’s relationship with the user.
If you’d like to showcase commercial work that makes money for you, please consider supporting the event with a sponsorship.
Proposal selection process
Voting is open to attendees who have purchased event tickets. If there is a proposal you find notable, please vote for it and leave a comment to initiate discussions. Your vote will be reflected immediately, but will be counted towards selections only if you purchase a ticket. Proposals will also be evaluated by a program committee consisting of:
- Gopal Vijayraghavan, Hortonworks
- Govind Kanshi, Microsoft
- Joydeep Sen Sharma, Qubole
- Srinivasan Seshadri (Sesh), Boltell
Emphasis will be placed on original work and talks which present new insights to the audience.
The programme committee will interview proposers who have received maximum votes from attendees and the committee. Proposers must submit presentation drafts as part of the selection process to ensure the talk is in line with the original proposal and to help the program committee build a coherent line-up for the event.
There is only one speaker per session. Attendance is free for selected speakers. HasGeek will cover your travel to and accommodation in Bangalore from anywhere in the world. As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. If you are able to raise support for your trip, we will count that towards an event sponsorship.
If your proposal is not accepted, you can buy a ticket at the same rate as was available on the day you proposed. We’ll send you a code.
Discounted tickets are available from http://fifthelephant.doattend.com/
Dates
The program committee will announce the first round of selected proposals by end of April, a second round by end-May, and will finalize the schedule by 20th June. The funnel will close on 5th June. The event is on 11th-13th July 2013.
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Pramod N Haritsa
@machinelearner
Making Sense of content in domain intense QA/Discussion Forums- A Text Mining Problem
Submitted May 29, 2013
Section:
Analytics and Visualization
Technical level:
Beginner
StackOverFlow: Imagine a world without such user collaboration and moderation in maintaining and getting information from discussion forums. In this talk we’ll see how can one make sense of content in QA/Discussion Forums using a palette of text processing techniques.
The talk aims at showcasing how can one use text processing(NLP or otherwise) and statistics to arrive at insights.
Outline
In identifying a lot of information regarding how credible is a User’s answer, what is the level of difficulty, what is the discussion thread talking about etc, We currently rely on a lot of collaboration from the users and moderators maintaining such user forums. At times, the information exchange happens through more unstructured and informal medium like mailing list/groups etc.
The talk aims to answer certain bits of the following question.
How can we associate a discussion thread with the key themes?
How can we associate a person to themes which he/she has interacted?
How can we measure the domain difficulty level of a discussion thread?
How can we allocate StackOverflow kind user ratings by just looking at the content of a User’s response?
How can we collate these information for future queries, recommendation etc?
Challenges in analysing Unstructured(speech form) Text.
Simple, yet effective statistical techniques to derive insights.
Simple visualisation.
iAdler - a prototype application for extracting insights from mailing lists.
The talk aims to highlight the idea behind including text for any insight derivation and not just the collaborative/user information.(Section on how numbers can be misleading at times)
Speaker bio
Pramod is currently working as an Application Developer in the Analytics Initiative at Thoughtworks Inc. He has spent major part of his academic career working as a research assistant under Dr Srinivasa K G and has experience in applying Machine Learning Techniques onto various computer science problems which include Network Data,Speech Processing, Text Processing and NLP. His research interests include Text & Data mining, Machine learning, Distributed Systems and Game Theory.
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