At the August 2013 Big Data Analytics event put on by Big Data Analytics (Sydney) and YOW!, DiUS’s Senior Consultant Charles Blaxland gave a presentation on how a new data science implementation for a financial services organisation used parallel processing and cloud computing to massively speed up the time taken to crunch 600 billion calculations from 208 days to just 8.5 hours.
Video length: 17 minutes 4 seconds
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2_jgcMzc-_Q
Video used with permission from YOW! Register for the upcoming YOW! Conference 2013 here.
