On Monday the 21st of November, we kicked off our first bigdata.be project using historic sales data from a real estate website (meetup). Interesting discussions throughout the evening lead us to define two paralel tracks. On the one hand, we will try to come up with a semi-structured model for real estate data. On the other [...]
On Wednesday August 24th 2011, we had our second meetup. As some people cancelled at the last moment, the crowd was not as large as for our first meetup: now, there were just 6 of us. This meetup was the first time we organised our get-together as an open discussion. Davy Suvee came up with [...]
So it has been a whlie since we held our first meetup on July 5th, 2011. We had a lively discussion on ideas, wants and won’ts for our young but apparently vibrant community. After some discussion in our group, we prefer to setup our meetups using a rotating schedule over Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at an [...]
We have all been anxiously waiting for that special day on which we may kick some life into our community. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about: The Belgian BigData launch event will take place tomorrow in Ghent! There are a few things we would like to talk about, but most importantly [...]
It is time to meet up in real life! IBBT in Ghent, is so kind to host our very first meeting and you are invited. We have created a meetup-page and would like to ask you to subscribe, if you are interested in joining us for an informal #bbuzz debrief and community introduction. The event [...]
After 2 intensively immersive days on big data at the Berlin Buzzwords (#bbuzz) conference in Berlin, the bigdata.be crew is back in Belgium again. Those two days were a rollercoaster ride of meeting smart people and listening to great talks on everything big data, NoSQL datastores and scalable search. There were quite some bigdata.be people present [...]
We have been discussing it for a while now and we believe the time is right to start a big data community in our little part of the world. We stand for a group of people that have to deal with building or using solutions for the ever growing data needs of our employers or [...]
Welcome to our Belgian community about bigdata, NoSQL and anything cloud. We will soon be organizing the kickoff of this community with our founding members. So keep coming back to see where our initiative is going, join us and hopefully participate actively to evangelize and promote the use of these new technologies throughout Belgium.