The presentation for Big Data Gods Meetup that occurred on May 06th, 2013 at Santa Clara, CA. This was a kickoff meeting for a month-long scrum on Recommendation Engines.

1. Recommendation Engines
Program Kickoff
Vivek A. Ganesan
vivganes@gmail.com
Big Data Gods Meetup, Santa Clara, CA May 06,
2013

2. Before we start
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o A BIG thank you to our sponsors –
Big Data Cloud
o Meeting Space
o Food + Drinks
o Recreation (just kidding)

3. Agenda
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o Introduction
o Structure
o Schedule
o Teams
o Questions?

4. Introduction
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o Program Outline
o This is an opt-in program, it is FREE! (as in beer)
o We do social coding (which means you share your
code as open source, Apache v2 license)
o Program duration = 1 month, weekly sprints
o Weekly meetup (topical + social coding + Q/A)
o A weekend hackathon (Sat. afternoon) alternate
weeks (deep technical immersion)
o Demo at the end of the program

5. About this Meetup : Structure
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• Agile teams
• Week 1 : Introduction to Problem
• Week 2 : Algorithm + Platform
• Week 3 : Technical help
(Algorithm, Platform, Testing and
Deployment)
• Week 4 : Panel + Demo
• Showcase Startups/Experts in
the space
• Teams show demos
• Panel judges winners
• We might have prizes (needs
to be figured out)

6. About this Meetup : Schedule
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• May 06th : Kickoff
• Scrum 1
• May 6th – Meetup : Kickoff
• May 11th – Hackathon 1 (Sat. 01:30 pm – 05:30 pm)
• MongoDB Introduction + Setup
• Scrum 2
• May 13th – Meetup : Collaborative Filtering Algorithms
• Scrum 3
• May 20th – Implementing Collaborative Filtering
• May 25th – Hackathon 2 (Sat. 01:30 pm – 05:30 pm)
• Advanced MongoDB
• Scrum 4
• May 27th – Panel + Demos

7. Picking your teams
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• Ideal Team structure (Three to Five people per team)
• Data Science interest (at least one person)
• NoSQL interest (at least one person)
• Visualization interest (at least one person)
• Domain interest (at least one person)
• Yes, one person can have more than one interest
• Requirement : At least two people in a team
• Requirement : Not more than five people in a team
• Requirement : Teams must register with the Organizer by
end of this week (May 10th, 2013)
• Requirement : Each team must pick an unique name (let
the Organizer know)
• Requirement : Each team must have two team leads

8. Questions? Comments?
Thank You!
E-mail: vivganes@gmail.com
Twitter : onevivek
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