Distributed Computing for Health Data Workshop
This full day workshop, run by HRD UK, offers a hands-on introduction to common big data tools, such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka, applied to stored (batch) and real-time (streaming) processing of healthcare data. The first half will introduce Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and distributed (cloud) storage systems, along with Spark libraries for machine learning prediction and classification problems. The second half will concentrate on real-time processing in Kafka, based on synthetic data generation and interactive analytical dashboards. A drop-in session will be held after the workshop sessions to address technical questions. The focus of the workshop is how to orchestrate big data pipelines by combining different tools and libraries, rather than on interpreting results.