TYPO CORRECTION - Austin SIGKDD Hacker's Dojo - Next Meeting Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7:00 - 8:00 pm

[David Boney <li...@semanticartifacts.com>]

Sorry, I left last week's date in the previous version of this message. This is now corrected.
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The next meeting of Austin SIGKDD, Big Data Machine Learning Hackers Dojo, is Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 7:00 - 8:00 pm at the Northwest Recreation Center. We have the meeting room from 6-9. We will have a presentation from 7-8, with hacking from 6-7 and 8-9.

We have been having a great turnout, between 12-20, at every meeting. The Northwest Recreation Center has been a real blessing as a meeting place with a central location, free parking, and free WIFI. We can accommodate up to thirty with the current tables and chairs available. Sukant brought a projector to the last meeting, which provided a better presentation, as you can show actual running examples in addition to slide presentations.

Last week David from PFI made a presentation of Giraph, a graph processing system built on Hadoop. I make a presentation of the source code of the word count program from the tutorial at the Hadoop web site. 

This week David from PFI will continue in his presentation on Giraph, a graph processing system built on Hadoop. If we have time, I will start into a presentation on the Mahout architecture. I will not get to Naive Bayes this week, maybe next week.

There is now a database for presentation topics, Database > Presentation Topics, at the Austin SIGKDD web site. You can add your name and date to present a topic and/or add additional topics that interest you.

There are two items for which I would like hold a vote at the meeting. 

The first is a formal vote to be come an ACM SIGKDD chapter. If the majority are in agreement, we will need three or more volunteers who are to be both ACM and SIGKDD members to be the officers, chair, vice chair, and secretary/treasurer. I know there are at least myself and another person attending the meeting who are both ACM and SIGKDD members, and another person has volunteered who does not attend the meetings. We also need ten people total to form the chapter.

The second item is headhunters and job postings. I would like to see which way the winds are blowing with the group. We had a posting this week by a headhunter to the mailing list. I am not opposed if they are Hadoop or machine learning jobs but others may consider this as just additional spam they have to sort through. I want to keep the group membership open and don't want to review messages before posting, I have better things to do with my time, but I can delete the postings after the fact and kick headhunters off the list if this is what the majority of the group wants.

Please bring you laptop, a power cord, and a power strip. We need more POWER STRIPS for the meeting.

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Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/austinsigkdd 
Group email address: austinsigkdd@yahoogroups.com 

Northwest Recreation Center
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/northwest.htm

P.S. Sukant, please remember to bring your projector.