We will take a simple yet popular & powerful math algorithm such as Linear Regression and implement a distributed version in 2hrs.
Pre-requisites: Knowledge of Java or R
See: http://h2o.0xdata.com/
Warning: Only software programmers ignore Warnings! That said, this seriously is a very hands on java-intense exercise. Extinguished engineers may not enjoy the proceedings.
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Big-Data-Science/events/121535782/