bio:
Paco Nathan, is a “player/coach” who's led innovative Data teams building large-scale apps for 10+ years. Expert in distributed systems, machine learning, Enterprise data workflows. Paco is an O'Reilly author, and an advisor for several firms including The Data Guild, Agrepedia, and TagThisCar. Paco received his BS Math Sci and MS Comp Sci degrees from Stanford University, and has 25+ years technology industry experience ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups.
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slides and videos:
Seattle DAML: Data Workflows for Machine Learning
Data Day Texas 2014 Keynote: "The Big Picture"
Spark Summit 2013: Spark on Elastic Mesos, for Enterprise Use Cases
ACM Bay Area Data Mining Workshop: Pattern, PMML, Hadoop
Boulder/Denver BigData: Cluster Computing with Apache Mesos and Cascading
UIC: Data Science for Social Good Fellowship
OSCON 2013: Using Cascalog to build an app with City of Palo Alto Open Data
Spark Summit 2013: Spark on Mesos on AWS
TwitterOSS: #MesosTownHall: Elastic Mesos on Amazon EC2
Chicago HUG: Datacenter Computing with Apache Mesos
Hadoop Summit 2013
Airbnb Tech Talk
O'Reilly: TDD for Big Data
Berkeley: EECS Invited Talk
misc:
- Exelixi a pure Python framework based on Apache Mesos, for GA/GP at scale
- Learn how to use Apache Mesos Quick Start Tutorials for Spark, Hadoop, Chronos, Marathon, etc.
- Play Framework Grid Deployment with Mesos engineering blog post with Typesafe
- Pattern: PMML for Cascading and Hadoop paper with Girish Kathalagiri presented in the PMML workshop at KDD 2013
- GitHub: Cascading.Pattern machine learning libraries for Cascading, translating PMML to Hadoop apps
- GitHub: Cascading for the Impatient a progressive series of introductory sample apps for Cascading
- GitHub: City of Palo Alto Open Data Cascading and Cascalog recommender apps based on CoPA Open Data
- GitHub: TextRank Java implementation of TextRank algorithm by Mihalcea, et al.
- GitHub: Cascading.SampleRecommender an example social recommender, based on stock Tweets
- GitHub: Getting Started on Hadoop Hadoop streaming in Python, to analyze Enron email data set
- JFRED Chatbot Server chatbot platform used for FringeWare eCRM, for BBC live televised Turing Test, etc.
- SourceForge: OpenSIMS integrates OSS tools for security management, with real-time analysis visualization
- StackOverflow Answers
- Hadoop Summit Speaker Interview: Paco Nathan
- "Paco Nathan: The Interview", Rachel Rhodes (2013) detailed interview about "Liber 118"
- "Magic and the Corporation", Expanding Mind (2012) by Erik Davis and Maja D'Aoust
- "What Countermeasures Really Means", O'Reilly ONLamp (2004)
- Sind Unternehmen die besseren Menschen? Löhrbach : Pieper and the Grüne Kraft (2004)
- "The Corporate Body: Liber 118 U.S. 394", Signum (2002)
- "FRED, Milton and Barry: the evolution of intelligent agents for the Web", Advances in intelligent systems (1997)
- "Jackson Wins, Feds Lose": Wired (1993)
- "Timewave Surfer Dudes": bOING-bOING (1992)
- "FringeWare Chronology", Laughing Bone