I must admit I’m deeply surprised that O’Reilly didn’t get negative feedback last time around that it should’ve applied to this year’s “hardcore” program, as I consider the company among the top couple of professional conference organizers around, across the widest set of topics.<\/p>\n
One of the challenges with Strata is catering to a diverse set of audiences, and O’Reilly’s done an excellent job with the “I want to learn Hadoop \/ new Big Data tech X” crowd. <\/strong>More recently, they’ve also done very well reaching out to the business-level audience trying to learn about the value of data.<\/strong> However, it seems like the technical core of the conference is gradually being left in the lurch in terms of their opportunity to learn, although there’s always the hallway track and whatever marketing value they get out of their talks and tutorials.<\/p>\n I would suggest that the intensive data-science track at future Strata conferences be made much more technical, that the talks become sufficiently practical that they’re handing out links to GitHub or other real-world, low-level implementations at the end of the talk, and that this shift in topic and intended audience be very clearly communicated to the speakers. Other than that slip-up, good show \u2014 I heard good things about the tutorials, the business day, and talks for the mid-level audience throughout the rest of the conference.<\/p>\n
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