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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Abhilash L L
@abhilashll
Interactive data transformations at scale
Submitted Apr 29, 2016
Section:
Sponsored
Technical level:
Beginner
One set of ETL tools allows building ETL pipelines for large datasets, however these tools do not provide data-level interactivity. There’s another set of data-prep tools that allow interactive data transformations, however only for a single table (or for datasets that can fit in the memory of a single machine). The challenge is to provide the best of both worlds - interactive data transformations for very large datasets involving relational / algebraic operations, like Joins, Aggregations, etc. In this talk we will look at how we built an interactive / visual experience for very large datasets, that has been deployed at a large enterprise.
Outline
Problem Stmt
a) Context / Use case
b) Why its complex
High level Approaches
a) Hardware scaling
b) Sampling
Why sampling is the right option
a) Sampling Techniques
b) How to come up with a sampling size
c) Fallbacks in case of failures
Future
a) Make use of the relational / algebraic information for a more informed sampling strategy
Speaker bio
Abhilash is currently a principal engineer in the Analytics team at Infoworks.io, an enterprise big data warehousing start up based out of the silicon valley. He has spent 7 years on scaling applications, loves start ups, open source and distributed systems. He started his exploration as an intern at Motorola Research Labs. He was an early stage team member at Capillary Technologies. In most of his tenure he has worked on complex OLTP and OLAP systems. He holds a masters degree from IIIT-Bangalore and a bachelors degree from RNSIT.
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