Re: PDXPUG - February meeting in two weeks

Thanks for a lively presentation! :)

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Jason Owen <jason(dot)a(dot)owen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> My slides are up at
> https://jasonaowen.github.io/postgres-incremental-schema/ , and they
> include links to the source and to other resources.
>
> Thanks everyone who attended tonight! I'm happy with how well it went.
>
> Jason
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Gabrielle R <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > When: 6-8pm Thursday Feb 18, 2016
> > Where: Iovation
> > Who: Jason Owen
> > What: Incremental Schema Discovery via JSON Wrangling
> >
> > Over the last few releases, Postgres has added and expanded support for
> > storing and querying JSON documents. While the simplicity and
> flexibility of
> > storing free-form data can be appealing, frequently what's stored is
> > actually fairly structured. Using data from the GitHub Archive, Jason
> will
> > show how easy it is to load JSON into Postgres, demonstrate some fairly
> > mechanical schema refactorings to extract structure from JSON data, and
> then
> > compare the resulting normalized tables with the original, with the
> > documentation, and with the data set loaded into Google BigQuery.
> >
> > Jason has been using Postgres in earnest for two years now. While he's
> worn
> > the DBA hat as a full stack engineer from time to time, he is primarily a
> > developer. He works at Tripwire and is an alumnus of Portland State
> > University. Sometimes he says things online as @jasonaowen.
> >
> > --
> > If you have a job posting or event you would like me to announce at the
> > meeting, please send it along. The deadline for inclusion is 5pm the day
> > before the meeting.
> > --
> >
> > Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp
> > Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max
> > lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage;
> > outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the
> office,
> > sorry!
> >
> > Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor
> at
> > 6:30.
> >
> > When you arrive at the Iovation office, please sign in on the iPad at the
> > reception desk.
> >
> > See you there!
>
>
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