Roaring Elephant

In this episode, we start a new series on the different roles in Big Data. Purely by coincidence, it turns out that the winner of our raffle started a new job as a Data Engineer at the beginning of this month, so naturally we decided to invite Marcel-Jan on the show to talk about the how and why of his career move. 00:00 Recent events Dave It’s morphing time: Apache Ranger graduates to a Top Level Project https://hortonworks.com/blog/morphing-time-apache-ranger-graduates-top-level-project-part-1/ https://hortonworks.com/blog/morphing-time-apache-ranger-graduates-top-level-project-part-2/ Data-Driven User Engagement https://www.svds.com/data-driven-user-engagement/ Driving Product Engagement with User Behaviour Analytics https://www.svds.com/driving-product-engagement-user-behavior-analytics/ Jhon Using Apache Spark for large-scale language model training https://code.facebook.com/posts/678403995666478/using-apache-spark-for-large-scale-language-model-training/ Big d