For the 2012 Hadoop Summit, I will have the honor to co-present with Dave Mariani (@dmariani) from Klout in our session How Klout is changing the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI.

Our session is currently scheduled for June 13th at 3:35pm but it is subject to change.  Check out our session and some pretty amazing others on the Hadoop Summit Schedule at: http://hadoopsummit.org/schedule/.  Our session info is:

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How Klout is changing the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI.

In this age of Big Data, data volumes grow exceedingly larger while the technical problems and business scenarios become more complex. Compounding these complexities, data consumers are demanding faster analysis to common business questions asked of their Big Data. This session provides concrete examples of how to address this challenge. We will highlight the use of Big Data technologies—including Hadoop and Hive —with classic BI systems such as SQL Server Analysis Services.

Session takeaways:

• Understand the architectural components surrounding Hadoop, Hive, Classic BI, and the Tier-1 BI ecosystem
• Get strategies for addressing the technical issues when working with extremely large cubes
• See how to address the technical issues when working with Big Data systems from the DBA perspective

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And for fun, check out my and Dave’s interview at: Meet the Presenters: Dave Mariani from Klout and Denny Lee from Microsoft

Personally, I have to say its been pretty awesome ride this last year and a half – and its only going to get more exciting!

Woot!