Data Potluck is a monthly meetup that brings together data scientists together to work on ways to help nonprofits using data. These meetups are held at the Chicago Community Trust and features a potluck dinner.
Data Potluck
The Next Data Potluck is at the Chicago Community Trust
At the first DataPotluck of the year, consultant and writer Q Ethan McCallum will explain how to put Hadoop to work for you, and how to use Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop solution provided by Amazon Web Services. McCallum will teach how EMR can help you get Hadoop in a hurry and on the cheap, without the costly cluster commitment.
Panoramic shot of the March Data Potluck meetup
You can RSVP for the event on the Data Potluck Meetup page.
Data Potluck is a meetup group run by Young-Jin Kim, Matt Gee, and Nicholas Mader that helps to connect the nonprofit and data science worlds. You can find more information about the group by checking out their page on Meetup.
This is the first time that Data Potluck will be held at the offices of the Chicago Community Trust, 225 North Michigan, where Smart Chicago is housed. I’m especially excited to see what kind of food shows up. Let’s do this.