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VFF: Distributed Big Data Analysis Frameworks and Open Source Visualization Tools

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Friday, April 03, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Patrick French · Open Source Developer
Visualization Friday Forum

Large scale distributed analysis frameworks are proliferating, but our ability to understand and interact with the output of these systems is the next frontier. Although the ecosystem is becoming richer by the day, with the increasing adoption of Hadoop, and tools it has inspired such as Storm and Spark, the challenge has become to assimilate the resulting analysis. Visualization is one of the keys to such understanding. Both batch and stream processing both present their own challenges in visualizing analysis outputs. Many complex proprietary packages exist for such visualizations, but so do capable open source tools such as D3 and WebGL. These open source tools lend themselves well to iterative and sharable explorations of data and the results of analysis. We will take a look at a few canonical data exploration problems in the light of these accessible visualization tools.

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