Just 2 comments about the KNIME Summit 2016
Now that we are all back to the usual work routine, I thought I would post my impressions about the latest KNIME Spring Summit, held in Berlin at the end of February.
For a start, the mood was energetic and electrifying. So many people that we barely fit ; so many inspiring conversations for tons of new ideas; and so many discussions about feasibility that the future work steps are now well defined!
So many speakers as well, all with such interesting topics, that it is hard to pick a favorite. If I really have to, I would choose here two talks: the talk by Dominique Genoud from HES-SO in Switzerland and the talk by Jan Pospisil from Siemens.
The first talk was showing a model trained to recognize hard and soft falls in elderly care. He described a classic ill-conditioned classification problem which was solved using some signal processing and a random forest or a combination of other by now well known classification algorithms. The interesting part here was in the deployment! The model was converted from PMML to Java and imported into an Android app. Thus the elderly can now move around freely, assisted by his own fall recognition cellular device. see slides at https://www.knime.org/files/summit2016/slides/Genoud_knimesummit_FINAL.pdf
The second talk by Jan Pospisil was an interesting example of how much integration can be pushed into a KNIME platform. In this one single project, KNIME was integrated with YARN, Hbase, Phoenix, Drill, Spark, and I am sure some minor additional components they thought unworthy to be mentioned at the moment. see slides https://www.knime.org/files/summit2016/slides/1_JanPopisil_BigData_FINAL.pdf
To conclude, I upload here the word cloud from all tweets about #KNIMESummit2016. Can you recognize any of the tweeters, including yourself?
Statistician | Data Science Manager | ASQ CSSBB
8 年Rosaria, I enjoyed the entire summit and it was wonderful!
Senior Data Engineer | SQL, PySpark, R, Python & Power BI | Assist businesses in decision-making by creating scalable data pipelines and providing insightful visualizations | 3x Microsoft certified (DP203, PL300, AI900)
9 年Rosaria Silipo Thanks for sharing the details.... as all cannot have the opportunity to be present in such knowledge sharing summit...
Head of Data Science Evangelism at KNIME
9 年The links to the slides has been fixed. A parenthesis ended up being part of the URL.
FOREX trading analyst, Adaptive Money Management professional
9 年Rosaria, you might want to know, that a tiny typo in a hyperlink, aiming towards both Jan's & Dominique's slides, causes a 404-// the requested page doesn't exist //-Error. You may decide to revise the posted memo, so as to fix this ( i.e. add a whitespace before the closing bracket, which is not a part of the said URL ).