MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2014



Twitter: Storm Hackathon

Karthik Ramasamy

Jan/14 Tue 03:00PM-07:00PM 4-237, Bring your laptop!

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required

3pm-7pm

Location:4-237

Please RSVP here.

Food will be served!

Do you have an interesting idea for analyzing data in real time? It could be analyzing a sentiment of your sports team, social recommendation of retail products, computing trending topics in Twitter stream, etc, etc. Bring your idea, learn Storm, code your idea, and execute it with help from Twitter Storm Experts!

Participants are recommended to attend Twitter's talk on Real Time Big Data Analytics January 13th.

 ***Please bring your laptops to this event!***

Storm Experts and Mentors: 

Karthik Ramasamy

Karthik is the engineering manager and technical lead for Real Time Analytics at Twitter.

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Sanjeev Kulkarni is a senior software engineer working on next generation streaming technologies required by the growing real-time needs of Twitter.

Max Hansmire

Max Hansmire is a software engineer on Twitter's TV platform team based in Cambridge.

Ed Solovey

Ed is senior software engineer on the Crashlytics team at Twitter, where he builds real-time and off-line analytics data processing pipelines and algorithms to gather insights from the data.

Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Karthik Ramasamy, sipb-iap-twitter@mit.edu