Practitioners the field of data visualizations often talk about 2 types of visualizations: exploratory vs explanatory. To quote Google definitions, “Exploratory data visualizations (EDVs) are the type of visualizations you assemble when you do not have a clue about what information lies within your data. Nov 19, 2018” Explanatory visualization, by contrast, is defined as “what happens when you have something specific you want to show an audience” (Storytelling with data blog, April 2014)

In this meetup Rancher founder Darren Shepherd joins Bill Maxwell, Jacob Blain Christen, and Thorsten Klein as they show the current state of K3s, K3c, and K3d and discuss the future of these powerful projects.

Puppet Camp Germany: Configuring Highly Scalable Compile Masters with Vasco Cardoso, Solutions Architect, AWS.

SIEM abbreviated as Security Information & event management plays an important role in an organization's information security posture.

Virtual Time Series Meetups are events for everyone who is passionate or curious about time series data and how it can be used. In the April edition of our meetup, special guest Saiyam Pathak shares the what, why and how of time series database InfluxDB. The talk features several demos on Kubernetes that can be performed by the viewers. Saiyam also discusses Telegraf, its plugins, and uses Kubernetes plugin during the demo(s).

Talk 1: Prophet for forecasts with InfluxDB Anais Dotis-Georgiou | Developer Advocate, InfluxData Abstract Data collection is only half of the battle. The other half is being able to easily perform data analysis. FB Prophet aims to make time series forecasting simple and fast. We’ll learn how to make a univariate time series prediction with Prophet and InfluxDB.

Calling all security enthusiasts! Many of us are now facing similar challenges working from home. Introduced in 7.2, Elastic SIEM is a great way to provide security analytics and monitoring capabilities to small businesses and homes with limited time and resources. In this three-part meetup series we will take you on a journey from zero to hero, getting started with the Elastic SIEM to becoming a threat hunter.

Aligning security and risk management to the business strategy is imperative in driving value. With a “yes, and here’s how” attitude, CISO’s organization has now become a trusted advisor to the business enabled with preventative, detective, and responsive solutions. Tools such as application performance monitoring (APM) can shed light on the components that make up the organization’s DNA including the current COVID-19 impact and the need for a distributed workforce.

This session comprises of two talks by community members, catering to audience of varying tech skills. Talk 1: Building a COVID-19 Dashboard for Non-Programmers We will use Kibana to build a Covid-19 dashboard using the "Upload CSV" feature. The dashboard will feature tables, bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. We will use existing publicly available data and show easy it is to build and share dashboards

It’s no secret: multilingual search is hard! Each language is unique. In some languages there is no whitespace between words, in others using the dictionary form of a word is essential to finding more relevant results. Your data can be in one or several languages or even worse, one document can be written in one or more languages. How do you maximize your chances of getting relevant results? This 35min talk will cover some customer use case and the following challenges.