Title: Introduction into Big Data

Speaker: Founder Alexey Dral, CEO at BigData Team

Date: 2020-01-10 09:00-10:30AM

Location: Room B311， Zengchengkui Building

Abstract：

During Big Data Introduction, you will get answers to the following questions:

1. How is Big Data related to parallel and distributed computing?

2. How does generic Big Data processing pipeline look like? How CAP “theorem”influence the choice of a database?

3. How does data layout help to speed up calculations?

Biography:

10 year working experience for the top Russian and international companies, including Amazon AWS, Yandex, Sberbank, Rambler and qualification onlarge-scale problems, leading R&D teams, defining strategy for the whole departments build up agreat mentor with an aspiration to offer insights to my students. Author of Big Data courses on Coursera，teach around the globe, launch new onsite and online courses to reduce the gap between industry and academia, supervise Data Science and Data Engineering initiatives.