Dr. Manjeet Rege and Dan Yarmoluk speak with Sean Owen, Director of Data Science of Cloudera. Before Cloudera, Sean founded Myrrix Ltd (now, the Oryx project) to commercialize large-scale real-time recommender systems on Apache Hadoop. He is an Apache Spark Committer and co-authored Advanced Analytics on Spark. He was a Committer and VP for Apache Mahout, and co-author of Mahout in Action. Previously, Sean was a senior engineer at Google.

The conversation moves from Cloudera solutions, data science skills, Altus as how to harness Big Data in the ever-changing landscape of technology.