Platfora Data Visualization Meetup
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The document summarizes a meetup about data visualization hosted by Platfora Company. It discusses Platfora software that transforms raw data in Hadoop into interactive business intelligence without needing ETL or a data warehouse. It provides an overview of Platfora Company, which was founded in 2011 and has raised $27.2M from investors. The meetup featured a demonstration of Platfora's data visualization and analysis capabilities.
Platfora Data Visualization Meetup
- 1. DATA VISUALIZATION MEETUP July 18, 2013
- 2. Platfora Company Overview "We like Platfora's in- memory approach, which, when combined with a strong visual exploratory front end and some other notable capabilities in security and parallel processing, holds appeal to both business users and data analysts.” - Krishna Roy, 451 Research KEY FACTS Founded June 2011; based in San Mateo, CA Raised $27.2M led by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, and IQT. GA in March 2013 in v2.0; currently shipping v2.3
- 3. Platfora software instantly transforms RAW DATA in HADOOP into INTERACTIVE, IN-MEMORY BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE. No ETL or data warehouse required. Introducing Platfora
- 4. BIG DATA BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE More than pretty visualizations James Mulholland, @jwmulholland, #prettybigdata
- 16. Tapping into our perceptive abilities PATTERNS TRENDS OUTLIERS
- 18. Making choices
- 19. visualization brings data to a human level
- 21. HADOOP Ad-hoc analysis Geolocation Network Flow Records Public / Internet Datasets Sensor Logs Social Graph Web Access Mobile App Access ERP Data (Finance & CRM) Customer Demographics Data Reservoir
- 24. Analyzing data requires iterative refinement to find the signal in the noise
- 25. DEMO
- 26. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” Michelangelo
- 27. big data
- 31. How to solve for BIG
- 32. ACCESS
- 35. ?
- 36. learning from discovery insights
- 37. Data-driven means having “informed intuition.” ~Peter Skomoroch Data Scientist, LinkedIn
- 39. keep people at the center
- 40. It will be BIG
- 41. THANK YOU