On Campus: In Person: Tech Talk at the Beach with Javier Orraca-Deatcu
🌟 You are invited to the upcoming Tech Talk at the Beach 🌟
Tech Talk at the Beach is a collaboration with Tech by the Beach, SoCal R Users Group (RUG), and the MS Information Systems Program.
Speaker: Javier Orraca-Deatcu
When: January 29th, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: COB 139A
RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gMWXVHAS
Ever wonder how you can work with "bigger than RAM" datasets on your laptop’s memory without needing a supercomputer? Join us for an approachable and practical talk on modern tools reshaping how data is processed, analyzed, and presented, all from your local machine.
Javier Orraca-Deatcu is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at a Fortune 25 corporation with real-world experiences building smarter workflows for analytics, data science, and machine learning. He’ll share how language-agnostic, open-source data storage and processing frameworks like Apache Parquet, Apache Arrow, DuckDB, and Polars make it possible to handle enormous data efficiently, whether you’re working with SQL, R, Python, and more. These next-gen frameworks let you process big datasets faster than ever, right on your laptop, for example, reading a 1.1 billion row, 22 column, 40GB data set on a MacBook Air in 25 milliseconds.
We'll also explore:
- Positron: A fresh, open-source coding environment purpose-built for data analysis and modeling, including all the best bells and whistles from VS Code and RStudio.
- Quarto: An open source technical publishing system similar in feel to notebooks (like Jupyter Notebooks) for creating beautiful articles, websites, slides, dashboards, and with full support for Python, R, Julia, and Observable.
Javier's talk is perfect for data professionals, analysts, students, and curious tech enthusiasts looking to incorporate bleeding-edge open-source technologies into their toolkits - no need to be an expert. Come learn, connect, and see how you can make your data workflow more powerful without breaking the bank on hardware.
This event is a collaborative effort between Tech by the Beach, SoCal R Users Group (RUG), and CSULB’s Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS).
