Photo by Mark Kelley

If you're in the Bay Area on February 8th, I highly recommend joining me at the Silicon Valley Big Data group's war stories event. It's being put on by some good friends from places like Kosmix (now Walmart Labs) and other folks who've been fighting in the Big Data trenches. The goal is to demystify the field, and show how any engineer can learn the techniques you need to create value from massive data sets, it's not just for Stanford PhD's any more! I hope that after hearing the stories and talking with the panelists, you'll feel confident you can dive in and start hacking.