Join SQL Server professionals from around the world for free online technical training and networking year round. PASS Virtual Chapters (VC) are interest-based forums that unite the SQL Server community through live webcasts with top SQL Server experts, online forums and resources – including an archive of past presentations, and special training events.
Business Analytics – Virtual Chapters
Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2013
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am (Mountain Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Featured Presentation: Predictive Analytics using In-Database Models
This webinar will cover: Introduction to in-database analytics, business uses cases covering segmentation and next likely purchase and a quick example of the technology that drives in-database analytics.
Speaker Info:
Jim Zhang Fuzzy Logix
HASSUG & H-BI Monthly Meeting
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Time: 10:30 am – 1:30 pm (Mountain Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Schedule:
10:30-10:40 – Announcements
10:40-11:45 – General presentation (Topic 1)
11:45-12:15 – Lunch\Networking – Raffle #1
12:15-1:20 – BI themed presentation (Topic 2)
1:20-1:30 – Recap Announcements – Raffle #2
Professional Development – Virtual Chapters
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (Mountain Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Featured Presentation: Lead Your Team to More Creative Ways of Think
Whether you’re a current manager, aspiring to be one, or looking to lead a team of peers, you need to know how to motivate people, including yourself. In this session, we will go over some different leadership approaches. We will talk about how to inspire those around you to come up with new and creative ideas in a constructive way without dictating processes and procedures. Not only can this help make your job more enjoyable, but those that work with you and for you will enjoy their work as well!
Speaker Info:
Dave Zapcic, the Director of Enterprise Data Management at Glatfelter Insurance Group
PASS Big Data Virtual Chapter – Virtual Chapters
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (Mountain Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Featured Presentation: Sentiment Analysis with Big Data
People’s sentiments and opinions are written in social networks. There are tweets, Facebook posts, book reviews, forum discussions, and more. These attitudes and feelings are communicated using text, with the format depending on the social network. Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters and use hashtags, for example; Facebook messages can be longer. This session reviews the different Natural Language Processing, text mining, and data mining techniques you can use for sentiment and tone analysis. Organizations can use the extracted knowledge for brand reputation, market predictions, and automatic learning. We’ll look at, Hadoop, data mining, and Microsoft Big Data Hadoop distribution HDInsight
Speaker Info:
Paco Gonzalez, who works for SolidQ, earned his Master’s degree at the University of Murcia, Spain, and Kennesaw State University, GA. Now he combines his work at SolidQ with his PhD thesis, “Analyzing Social Data.” He is an MCT and MCP Certified on BizTalk Server and SQL Server and works in the integration and BI fields at SolidQ. Paco is the Pass BigData virtual chapter Leader. He is coauthor of Microsoft Training Kit 441.
Business Analytics – Virtual Chapters
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am (Mountain Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Featured Presentation: Brust on Business Analytics
This interview style meeting will provide you with Andrew Brust’s insights on the current state of Business Analytics.
Speaker Info:
Andrew: Andrew J. Brust is founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights and writes a blog for ZDNet called “Big on Data” (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/big-data). Blue Badge Insights provides strategy and advisory services to Microsoft customers and partners. The company grew out of Andrew’s background in application software development, dating back to 1985, and his industry expertise in Microsoft technologies including .NET, SQL Server, and Analysis Services. Andrew, who serves as a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, is co-author of “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012″ (Microsoft Press), is conference co-chair of Visual Studio Live!, and writes Visual Studio Magazine’s “Redmond Review” column. He is also an advisor to NYTECH, the New York Technology Council.
