Big Data talk for technical non-programmers

I’ve going to be giving a talk on big data for the newly formed Nevada County Tech Talk event – a monthly gathering at Sierra Commons.

Unfortunately most of the relevant content I’ve got is for Java programmers interested in using Hadoop. Things I could talk about, based on personal experience:

A 600M page web crawl using Bixo.
Using LibSVM to predict medications from problems.
Using Mahout’s kmeans clustering algorithm on pages referenced from tweets (the unfinished Fokii service).

I’m looking for relevant talks that I can borrow from, but I haven’t found much that’s targeted at the technically minded-but-not-a-programmer crowd.

Comments with pointers to useful talks/presentations would be great!

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2 Responses to Big Data talk for technical non-programmers

Abbot of Unreason says:

January 6, 2011 at 1:54 pm

Is this the “technical affinity group” that was mentioned in the Sierra Commons blog?

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- kkrugler says:
  
  January 6, 2011 at 3:19 pm
  
  Yes, if you’re referring to the “Tech Talk” lecture series post at http://sierracommons.org/2011/local-business/2108
  
  It should be interesting – hope you can make it.
  
  — Ken
  
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