CRUNCH. Big Data. Budapest. October 28-30.

Join us for this year’s Crunch Practical (and very affordable) Big Data Conference, where big name stars like Doug Cutting (founder of Hadoop) and practitioners like Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey, Director of Analytics) will be presenting to talk about big data technologies, trends, best-practices, war stories, and where they think our industry is going. Below is a partial list of the 17 speakers:

• Doug Cutting
  Chief Architect at Cloudera, Founder of Hadoop
• Alistair Croll
  Entrepreneur, author of Lean Analytics
• Stephen Brobst
  Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Corporation
• Andrea Burbank
  Data Scientist, Pinterest
• Elena Verna
  Director of Growth and Analytics, SurveyMonkey
• Esh Kumar
  Data Scientist, Spotify
• Check the page for a complete list

Crunch will also feature 4 interesting workshops for participants. These look really useful,for example

Evan Miller of How Not To Run An A/B Test fame will be running one!

The other workshops are:

• Lean Analytics: The Data That Will Make or Break Your Business
  by Alistair Croll, author of Lean Analytics
• Data analytics clusters with one-click
  by Lajos Papp, Hortonworks
• Building Recommendation Products 101
  by Esh Kumar, Spotify
• Introduction to Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling
  by Evan Miller, author of the Wizard Statistical analyzer

Not only are tickets cheap ($300 USD!), but you also get to 
visit beautiful Budapest.
(By the way, a beer in Budapest can be as cheap as just a buck).

Save $45 (a 15% discount) with code KDNuggets45