Fwd: [TriLUG] January 12 meeting - Open Source Business Intelligence Tools
Some TriZPUG members may be interested in next week's meeting of the
Triangle Linux Users Group. Alex will be talking mostly about
products from Pentaho (
http://www.pentaho.com/),
which are primarily written in Java and have APIs for Java. That
said, you could probably consume them using jython.
He will also be talking generally about business intelligence, which
is an exciting and interesting topic for anyone with access to
significant amounts of data. There are also a handful of OLAP
projects implemented in python, so you may be able to apply the
knowledge from Alex's talk to speed your learning of a python
project.
For a quick intro to what BI is, please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence.
If that gets you curious, then please join us next week to learn
more!
Kind regards,
Justis Peters
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Topic: Open Source Business Intelligence Tools
Presenter: Alex Meadows
When: Thursday, January 12, 7pm
Where: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus
Map:
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html
Business Intelligence has become one of the business world's most
valuable tools to determine upcoming business decisions. Thanks to
the open source revolution, BI is no longer just for enterprise
level businesses. This presentation will go over the different areas
of Business Intelligence and show just how far open source
alternatives have come in each area. BI can be broken down into five
distinct areas, which include:
*) Reporting
*) Data Warehousing
*) Statistical Analysis
*) Visualization
*) Predictive Analytics
From the very basic reporting to the most advanced predictive
analytics, open source can cover many of the features and
capabilities of their multi-million dollar competitors.
Alex Meadows is an avid open source advocate and self proclaimed
'data geek'. He has worked in the Business Intelligence field for
six years and holds a Masters in Business Intelligence from Saint
Joseph's University. He is also the Community Leader of the RTP
Penthao User Group. He can be followed on his blog at
http://www.bluefiredatasolutions.com
and on Twitter at <at> DBA_Alex.
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Some TriZPUG members may be interested in next week's meeting of the
Triangle Linux Users Group. Alex will be talking mostly about
products from Pentaho (<a href="http://www.pentaho.com/">http://www.pentaho.com/</a>),
which are primarily written in Java and have APIs for Java. That
said, you could probably consume them using jython.<br><br>
He will also be talking generally about business intelligence, which
is an exciting and interesting topic for anyone with access to
significant amounts of data. There are also a handful of OLAP
projects implemented in python, so you may be able to apply the
knowledge from Alex's talk to speed your learning of a python
project.<br><br>
For a quick intro to what BI is, please see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence</a>.
If that gets you curious, then please join us next week to learn
more!<br><br>
Kind regards,<br>
Justis Peters<br><br>
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Topic: Open Source Business Intelligence Tools<br>
Presenter: Alex Meadows<br>
When: Thursday, January 12, 7pm<br>
Where: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus<br>
Map: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html">http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html</a><br><br>
Business Intelligence has become one of the business world's most
valuable tools to determine upcoming business decisions. Thanks to
the open source revolution, BI is no longer just for enterprise
level businesses. This presentation will go over the different areas
of Business Intelligence and show just how far open source
alternatives have come in each area. BI can be broken down into five
distinct areas, which include:<br><br>
*) Reporting<br>
*) Data Warehousing<br>
*) Statistical Analysis<br>
*) Visualization<br>
*) Predictive Analytics<br><br>
From the very basic reporting to the most advanced predictive
analytics, open source can cover many of the features and
capabilities of their multi-million dollar competitors.<br><br>
Alex Meadows is an avid open source advocate and self proclaimed
'data geek'. He has worked in the Business Intelligence field for
six years and holds a Masters in Business Intelligence from Saint
Joseph's University. He is also the Community Leader of the RTP
Penthao User Group. He can be followed on his blog at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bluefiredatasolutions.com">http://www.bluefiredatasolutions.com</a>
and on Twitter at <at> DBA_Alex.<br><br>
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