Details

Speaker(s):  Andrew J. Brust 

Duration: 120 minutes

Track: Unlocking Big Data

Want to get up to speed on Big Data, BI and how they can work together, using technology from Microsoft and several of its competitors?  This back-to-back session from Andrew Brust, Gigaom Research Director for Big Data and Analytics, will get you there, with little prior knowledge required.
We’ll start by looking at Apache Hadoop, including its architecture, capabilities, and how to work with it directly.  Then we’ll move up a couple of layers of abstraction and see how we can query Hadoop data using Excel, Power Query, Power View and Power BI.  This will be a guided tour of Big Data technology and practical, approachable ways to work with that data using Microsoft’s BI tools.
From that focused look at Power BI, we’ll transition into an investigation of other self-service data discovery tools. We’ll look at tools from several vendors, including Tableau, Qlik and Jaspersoft.  We’ll see how these tools compare to Microsoft’s, how they connect to Hadoop and we’ll learn about the commonalities between the products.