The Fifth Elephant is India’s most renowned data science conference. It is a space for discussing some of the most cutting edge developments in the fields of machine learning, data science and technology that powers data collection and analysis.
Machine Learning, Distributed and Parallel Computing, and High-performance Computing continue to be the themes for this year’s edition of Fifth Elephant.
We are now accepting submissions for our next edition which will take place in Bangalore 28-29 July 2016.
#Tracks
We are looking for application level and tool-centric talks and tutorials on the following topics:
- Deep Learning
- Text Mining
- Computer Vision
- Social Network Analysis
- Large-scale Machine Learning (ML)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Computational Biology
- ML in healthcare
- ML in education
- ML in energy and ecology
- ML in agriculrure
- Analytics for emerging markets
- ML in e-governance
- ML in smart cities
- ML in defense
The deadline for submitting proposals is 30th April 2016
Format
This year’s edition spans two days of hands-on workshops and conference. We are inviting proposals for:
- Full-length 40 minute talks.
- Crisp 15-minute talks.
- Sponsored sessions, 15 minute duration (limited slots available; subject to editorial scrutiny and approval).
- Hands-on Workshop sessions, 3 and 6 hour duration.
Selection process
Proposals will be filtered and shortlisted by an Editorial Panel. We urge you to add links to videos / slide decks when submitting proposals. This will help us understand your past speaking experience. Blurbs or blog posts covering the relevance of a particular problem statement and how it is tackled will help the Editorial Panel better judge your proposals.
We expect you to submit an outline of your proposed talk – either in the form of a mind map or a text document or draft slides within two weeks of submitting your proposal.
We will notify you about the status of your proposal within three weeks of submission.
Selected speakers must participate in one-two rounds of rehearsals before the conference. This is mandatory and helps you to prepare well for the conference.
There is only one speaker per session. Entry is free for selected speakers. As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. HasGeek will provide a grant to cover part of your travel and accommodation in Bangalore. Grants are limited and made available to speakers delivering full sessions (40 minutes or longer).
Commitment to open source
HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like it to be available under a permissive open source licence. If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licences (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognise that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a sponsored session.
Key dates and deadlines
- Revised paper submission deadline: 17 June 2016
- Confirmed talks announcement (in batches): 13 June 2016
- Schedule announcement: 30 June 2016
- Conference dates: 28-29 July 2016
##Venue
The Fifth Elephant will be held at the NIMHANS Convention Centre, Dairy Circle, Bangalore.
##Contact
For more information about speaking proposals, tickets and sponsorships, contact info@hasgeek.com or call +91-7676332020.
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Akshay Rai
@akshayrai
Dr. Elephant - Self-Serve Performance Tuning for Hadoop and Spark
Submitted Apr 25, 2016
Section:
Crisp talk
Technical level:
Intermediate
Hadoop is a framework that facilitates the distributed storage and processing of large distributed datasets involving a number of components interacting with each other. Because of its large and complex framework, it is important to make sure every component performs optimally. While we can always optimize the underlying hardware resources, network infrastructure, OS, and other components of the stack, only users have control over optimizing the jobs that run on the cluster.
Dr. Elephant is a tool for the users of Hadoop to help them understand, analyse and tune their Hadoop/Spark applications easily, thus improving their productivity and the cluster’s efficiency. It analyzes the Hadoop and Spark jobs using a set of pluggable, configurable, rule-based heuristics that provide insights on how a job performed, and then uses the results to make suggestions about how to tune the job to make it perform more efficiently.
Outline
Phase 1: I’ll share the experience at Linkedin in optimizing the user jobs, the challenges we faced and how a simple self serve tool like Dr. Elephant helped overcome these challenges.
Phase 2: I’ll share how we integrated such a tool into our developer lifecycle and encouraged them to optimize the jobs with minimal support from the hadoop experts.
Phase 3: This phase will involve discussions about the tool, how it analyses the job by gathering all the diverse information, how to write custom heuristics and plug them into Dr. Elephant, comparing and analysing job executions etc.
Speaker bio
Akshay Rai is an engineer at Linkedin working for the Hadoop development team. He has been working on Dr. Elephant for more than a year and has worked extensively to help open source this tool. Since the open source announcement last week, he has been actively engaging in discussions with the community and leading this project.
Links
- Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/akshayrai09
- Dr. Elephant Engineering Blog: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/04/dr-elephant-open-source-self-serve-performance-tuning-hadoop-spark
- Dr. Elephant Github Code: https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant
- Dr. Elephant Wiki: https://github.com/linkedin/dr-elephant/wiki
- Dr. Elephant Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/dr-elephant-users
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