Thetus Corporation

The comp is King...or used to be.

The design comp has had a long reign as the singular means by which a designer communicates design intention. Its power is garnered from a single screen landscape, but its prominence is rapidly coming to end as we move into an era of modular design in the Fluid Web. Designer Nicole Mors will discuss the future of design communication in a post-comp world.

Come join us next Thursday, December 11th, at Thetus. Pizza and salad (for those of us who are gluten free and/or vegan) will be provided by our sponsor 24 Seven Talent.

MapR is presenting this event.

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade Big Data platform that supports many mission-critical and real-time production uses.

Thetus is our wonderful host! 

Pulehu Pizza are our expert pizza makers!

Talend is organizing the event.

Description 

Time to value is everything. 

With the emergence of new data sources such as web logs, social media, mobile applications and sensor data, organizations are looking extend BI by providing insights into new areas such as operational performance, product optimization and customer satisfaction. 

However, traditional data management processes simply don’t work in this new world of big data.

Organizations now not only have to manage higher volumes of information, but the data itself arrives at faster rates in real time and is more complex, dynamic than traditional transactional datasets. To be useful, this data must be analyzed in much more shorter intervals than traditional reporting cycles of weeks and months.  

In this session, we will see how Apache Drill is driving this audacious goal to bring Self Service data exploration to Hadoop/NoSQL data, by letting users explore any type of data, immediately as it comes in, using the ANSI SQL language/SQL tools they are already familiar with. We'll see Drill in action on a live Hadoop cluster.

About the Presenter

Aditya Kishore is a software engineer at MapR Technologies where he works on Apache HBase, MapR-DB, Hadoop security and most recently Apache Drill. Prior to MapR, Aditya worked at Novell as software engineer on the infrastructure team.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30 Welcome & Networking

6:30 – 7:30 Presentation by Aditya Kishore

7:30 – 8:30 Networking + drinks and our signature delicious thin crust pizzas!

Christina Beard will present on the fundamentals of animation, and how those principles can be applied to web development. Her talk will explore the basic animation principles used by character animators the world over for studios like Disney, Pixar or Studio Ghibli and how those same principles can be applied to create more pleasing and engaging motion graphics and design for web developers.

Christina is a Portland born and raised designer and animator. She has worked for the video game industry as an animator and game designer, as well as on commercials, graphic design and front end web development. Outside of work she loves to write fiction and play video games.