The Fifth Elephant

The Fifth Elephant features nearly 50 sessions over two days across three halls. Below is the final schedule. There is also an Open House held from 2:15pm to 5:15pm on Level 1.

Workshops were held one day prior (26 July) at CIS and TERI. 

Technologies and Tools - 27 July

Venue: Nimhans Convention Centre

• 8:15 – 9:15
  Registrations
• 9:15 – 9:30
  Introductions
• 9:30 - 10:15

  Crunching Big Data, Google Scale

  Rahul Kulkarni (Keynote)

• 10:15 - 11:00

  In Data We Believe

  Harish Pillay, Red Hat (Sponsor Keynote)

• 11:00 – 11:30
  Tea
• Track Themes
  Big Data Infrastructure
  Analytics
  Visualization
• 11:30 – 12:15

  A Herd of Elephants - Navigating the Hadoop Ecosystem

  Vinayak Hegde

  Telling Stories with Data

  Ajay Kelkar

  An Introduction to Data Visualization and Processing (Programming Language)

  Uttam Grandhi

• 12:15 – 1:00

  Big Data and the Cloud, A Best Friend Story

  Joseph Ziegler

  Simplifying Advanced Analytics to Empower Business Managers

  Prithvijit Roy

  Visualizing Text

  Anand S.

• 1:00 – 2:00
  Lunch
• 2:00 – 2:30

  Looking Beyond the Usual Suspects for Near Real-time Analytics on Big Data

  Navjot Sidhu

  Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization with R

  Shree Joshi

  Linked Tag Clouds, Trend Clouds and Other Tools

  Dorai Thodla

• 2:30 – 3:00

  Build Your Own Real-time Analytics and Visualization, Enable Complex Event Processing, Event Patterns and Aggregates

  Ramesh Perumalsamy and Vishnu H. Rao

  The Science behind Predictive Analysis

  Ankur Pandey

  Lessons from the Evolution of Mayavi

  Prabhu Ramachandran

• 3:00 – 3:30

  Splunk> Driving Real-time Analytics from Small Data, Big Data and Huge Data

  Rahul Deshmukh (Sponsor Session)

  “I know what you are going to do next summer” – Predicting Repeat Purchase Behavior by using Bayesian Hierarchical model and Regression Techniques

  Biswajit Pal, Subhasish Mishra and Manav Shroff

  Seeing through the Haze - Advanced Visualisations using Python

  Vinayak Hegde

• 3:30 – 4:00
  Tea
• 4:00 – 4:30

  The Elephant in the Cloud

  Joydeep Sen Sarma

  Basic Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

  Jaidev Deshpande

  Building, Analyzing and Visualizing Large Graphs

  Ashwin Rajeev

• 4:30 – 5:00

  How the Internet Archive Preserves Petabytes of Data

  Anand Chitipothu and Noufal Ibrahim

  GlusterFS "Big Data" Interface

  Venky Shankar (Sponsor Session)

  Approaches to ML Techniques on Real World Data

  Venkata Ramana
• 5:00 – 5:30

  Build Your Own Search Engine

  Siddhartha Reddy

  Building the Infrastructure to Handle Big Data

  Prashant Kumar

  Finding Signal in the Noise: How to Put Big Data to Use

  Goldee Udani
• 5:30 – 6:15
  Panel Discussion: Best Practices

  Kalpana Krishnaswami, Prithvijit Roy, Joydeep Sen Sarma, Anand S., Rohit Chattar, Navjot Sidhu

  Moderator: Govind Kanshi

Industry and Business - 28 July

Venue: Nimhans Convention Centre

• 8:15 – 9:15
  Registrations
• 9:15 – 9:30
  Introductions
• 9:30 – 10:15

  Your Genome on the Cloud: Big Data Challenges in Personalized Medicine

  Ramesh Hariharan (Keynote)

• 10:15 – 11:00

  Building Watson -- A Brief Overview of DeepQA and the Jeopardy! Challenge

  Karthik Visweswariah (Keynote)

• 11:00 – 11:30
  Tea
• 11:30 – 12:15

  Exponential Growth Models and Impact on Sales Forecast,Data Volume, Query Latency, Capacity Planning and Search Latency

  Ashok Banerjee (Tech)

  Data Explosion in Medical Imaging

  Shourya Sarcar (Life Sciences)

  RTI and Data: Opportunities, Issues and Challenges

  Nikhil Pahwa (Governance)

• 12:15 – 1:00

  The Elephant that Flew - Big Data Analytics @ InMobi

  Gaurav Agarwal (Tech)

  Open data and the Life Sciences: An Open World

  Kalpana Krishnaswami (Life Sciences)

  Aadhaar - World's Largest Biometric Identity Platform

  Dr. Pramod Varma and Regunath Balasubramanian (Governance)

• 1:00 – 2:00
  Lunch
• 2:00 – 2:30

  Messaging architecture at Facebook

  Joydeep Sen Sarma (Tech)

  Analytics Platform - Experience and Evolution

  Prasad A N and Girish Chandramohan (Media)

  the aRt of NSSO data

  Riju (Governance)

• 2:30 – 3:00

  Real Time Intelligent Systems and Big Data Streams

  Deepinder Dhingra (Tech)

  The Data Journalism Handbook

  Lucy Chambers (Media)

  How your favorite retailers make money from analytics?

  Sridhar Bollam (Retail)

• 3:00 – 3:30

  Recommendation Play @Flipkart

  Gaurav Bhalotia, Pavan Srinivas, Renuka Khandelwal (Tech)

  Social Media and Text Analytics using Open Source Tools

  Randhir Hebbar and Sanjeev (Media)

  Targeting the Moment of Truth: Using Big Data in Retail

  Amit Kapoor (Retail)

• 3:30 – 4:00
  Tea
• 4:00 – 4:30

  Application of Data analytics in Small/Medium Enterprise Planning

  Arvind Saraf (Small Businesses)

  Structuring Data from Surveys - A Case Study from a Slum Survey conducted in 2010

  Aditi Murthy and Onkar Hoysala (Misc, Surveys)

  From Data to Action (in Retail Banking)

  Anannya Deb (Finance)

• 4:30 – 5:00

  Towards Social Semantic Tools

  Arvind K (Tech)

  Analytics is a Magic Wand for HR professionals

  Karthikeyan Damodaran (Misc, HR)

  Financial Market and Economic Data

  Deepak Shenoy (Finance)

• 5:00 – 5:30
  Closing
• 5:30 - 6:00
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