Nathan Marz is the lead engineer at BackType where he builds analytics tools for social media. BackType collects many terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, social news sites, millions of blogs, and provides analytics on this data in real-time. Nathan has spoken at conferences such as Cloud Connect, the Hadoop Summit, Hadoop Day, and Strange Loop about his work.
Nathan does most of his work using the Clojure programming language and is the author of numerous open source projects, most notably Cascalog and ElephantDB. He is an expert in building realtime Big Data systems and is working on a book on the subject for Manning Publications.
Nathan is on Twitter as @nathanmarz. He maintains a blog where he writes about software, startups, and technology.
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