Spark Happy Hour - with special guest Holden Karau

Spark Author and Committer Holden Karau will be our special guest for this "Spark Happy Hour" edition of Drinks and Data. What more excuse do you need to come join us?

About Holden Karau

For the very few who aren't familiar with her, Holden Karau is a transgender Canadian open source developer advocate at Google focusing on Apache Spark, Beam, and related big data tools. Previously, she worked at IBM, Alpine, Databricks, Google (yes, this is her second time), Foursquare, and Amazon. Holden is the coauthor of Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, and another Spark book that’s a bit more out of date. Holden is a committer on the Apache Spark, SystemML, and Mahout projects. When not in San Francisco, Holden speaks internationally about different big data technologies (mostly Spark). She was tricked into the world of big data while trying to improve search and recommendation systems and has long since forgotten her original goal. Outside of work, she enjoys playing with fire, riding scooters, and dancing.

About Hawthorn

Hawthorn is the informal home of Global Data Geeks in SF. It's a gorgeous underground bar on Geary St., just a block from the Montgomery BART/Muni Station

About Global Data Geeks

When we're not in the bars, we're organizing conferences like Data Day Texas, the Texas AI Summit, Data Day Seattle, and Graph Day.