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Government Technology & Innovation Incubator for Big Data Analytics

Dr. Brand NiemannDirector and Senior Data Scientist/Data Journalist

Semantic Communityhttp://semanticommunity.info/

http://www.meetup.com/Virginia-Big-Data-Meetup/ http://www.meetup.com/Federal-Big-Data-Working-Group/

http://www.meetup.com/Northern-Virginia-Semantic-Web-Meetup/ http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Federal_Big_Data_Working_Group_Meetup

January 27, 2015

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Introduction• Welcome:

– Federal Big Data Working Group Meetup– Virginia Big Data Meetup– Lotico Northern Virginia Semantic Web– Other?

• Purpose and Opportunity: Time Critical Because of Eastern Foundry Small Business/Start-Up Benefits and Challenge Cup Opportunity

• Eastern Foundry: Veteran owned incubator for startups and small businesses interested in the government contracting industry.– Sen. Mark Warner cuts ribbon at Eastern Foundry opening ceremony

December 16, 2014.– The Crystal City incubator opened its doors December 1st and already has 33

companies in their space.• Logistics: Food and Restrooms

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Federal Big Data Working Group Meetup

• Federal: Supports the Federal Big Data Initiative, but not endorsed by the Federal Government or its Agencies;

• Big Data: Supports the Federal Digital Government Strategy which is "treating all content as data", so big data = all your content;

• Working Group: Data Science Teams composed of Federal Government and Non-Federal Government experts producing big data products (see Possible Team Presentations below); and

• Meetup: The world's largest network of local groups to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize like MOOCs (Massive Open On-line Courses) being considered by the White House

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The Profit and Data Enterprises• Marcus Lemonis (born

November 16, 1973) is a Lebanese-born American businessman, investor, television personality and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Camping World and Good Sam Enterprises, and the star of The Profit, a CNBC reality show about saving small businesses through People, Process, and Products.– http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Lemonis

• The Federal Big Data Working Group Meetup is also about helping government agencies develop:– People – Data Scientists– Process – Data Infrastructure– Products – Data Publications

• Some examples:– EPA– FDA– NOAA– HHS– Eastern Foundry

• And provide MOOCs for training and networking. (Massive Open Online Courses)

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Five MOOCs for BigApplications and Analytics

• Practical Data Science for Data Scientists by Niemann Based on Schutt and O’Neil Book

• Data Science for Data Mining by Niemann Based on North Book and Borne Class

• Federal Big Data Working Group Meetups by Niemann and Goodier

• Tackling the Challenges of Big Data, MIT ProfessionalX Online Course by Niemann Based on Rus and Madden MOOC

• Data Science for Big Data Application and Analytics MOOC by Niemann Based on Geoffrey Fox MOOC

• Data Science for Mining of Massive Datasets by Niemann Based on Stanford MOOC (IN PROCESS)

See: Top 5 MOOCs for Data Science

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Data Science for Mining of Massive Datasets (IN PROCESS)

Data Science for Mining of Massive Datasets

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Calendar• Data Science for the National Big Data R and D

Initiative, February 2, 2015• Data Science for Big Data Application and

Analytics MOOC, March 2, 2015• 5th Annual Government Big Data Forum, March

12, 2015• Data Science for HealthData.gov Developers &

Family Caregivers. April 6, 2015• Data Science for Natural Medicines and Genetic

Data (in planning), May 4, 2015

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Agenda

• 6:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction (New Tutorial and Mentoring) Data Science for the DTIC Data Ecosystem RFI Brand Niemann

• 7:00 p.m. Brief Member Introductions• 7:15 p.m Big Data Technology, Dmitri Adler Slides Demo• 7:45 p.m. Government Technology & Innovation Incubator

(Eastern Foundry), Geoff Orazem Slides• 8:30 p.m. Open Discussion• 8:45 p.m. Networking• 9:00 p.m. Depart

http://www.meetup.com/Federal-Big-Data-Working-Group/events/219547654/