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People presenting:
Cedric De Vroey
People otherwise attending:
Koen, Jeroen De Dauw, Bert, Biertie, Sandb
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<h2>Topics:</h2> - What is Data Warehousing and why do you use it? - What is ETL? - What (open-source) software is out there to start with data warehousing? - What are cool appliances of data warehousing? - What kind of data models can you use? - Where can you find loads of free data? <h2>Why would it be interesting to join?</h2> - You'll see how data from different sources is merged and combined together in one informationstream. - You'll learn about multi dimensional models (time, location, ...) - You'll learn about Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon, the two gurus in the scene with contradicting opinions (Basically "Would you collect all available data or only the data that you need?") - You'll learn about indexing strategies and database performance - You'll learn how to merge local data with remote data from i.e. Google Maps API and Twitter REST API. - You can also learn all these things in certified trainings, but they cost lots of money ;-) <h2>Prerequisits</h2> There are no real prerequisits, everybody is free to join. However to grasp the full technical details during the workshop it's recommended you know something about the following topics: <ul> <li>SQL (any variant is ok)</li> <li>Relational databases</li> <li>Experience in working with structured data (CSV, XML, ...) can also come in handy</li></ul> <h2>Things to bring</h2> You can join the workshop without anything but if you want to try some stuff out 'a la minute' you'll need the following stuff: <ul> <li>A laptop with enough juice to run a VM that needs 1.7GB of RAM.</li> <li>Enough free diskspace to store the VM. I guess about 20GB should be enough </li> <li>You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox installed on your machine</li> </ul>
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