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Scott Tilley to speak at INCOSE meeting

On Dec. 3, 2015, Scott Tilley will give a talk on "Big Data - A Systems Engineering Perspective" at the INCOSE Space Coast Chapter meeting. This is free and open to the public.

Big Data - A Systems Engineering Perspective
Forget about gigabytes - we’ve entered the “big data” era of yottabytes: 10^24 bytes, or 1 trillion terabytes. The technical term used to describe this much data is “ginormous.” The world is producing data at an amazing rate. The question is: what do to with it? Predictive analytics at scale are a very real concern for systems engineers already, and in the coming years the challenge will only grow. This talk describes the current big data landscape, provides an overview of some of the tools available to manage massive datasets, and discusses some of the possible impacts of big data on systems engineers in the near future.

Meeting on Jan. 11, 2016

The first user group meeting will take place on January 11, 2016. Our guest speaker will be Stan Mlynarczyk, PhD. Stan is CTO of Chicago Technologies Inc. He will be speaking on "Text Analytics with Big Data and Hadoop." Don't miss it!

Alan Turing Fellowships in Data Science

From DBWORLD:

This is a unique opportunity for early career researchers to join The Alan Turing Institute. The Alan Turing Institute is the UK's new national data science institute, established to bring together world-leading expertise to provide leadership in the emerging field of data science. The Institute has been founded by the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick and EPSRC. More information online at https://turing.ac.uk/#the-vision.

Software Testing in the Cloud talk

Tauhida Parveen delivered a webinar on "Software Testing in the Cloud" to the ASTQB on Nov. 7, 2015. If you're interested in big data, then this talk should interest you as well. The connection is cloud computing. You can view the webinar here.

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