Building a data analytics platform with Hadoop, Python and R

Speaker: Sander Kieft, Sanoma Media

Abstract:

What does it take to build an large scale analytics platform?

This talk will take you through the past, present and future of the data platform in use by Sanoma. A few years ago Sanoma set out to build a self service data platform, using a mixture of open source and commercial technology. Centre to the platform are Hadoop, Hive, Python, R and QlikView. Today the platform is scaled and in use in various Sanoma Countries (Finland, The Netherlands and Hungary).