Re: PDXPUG - February meeting in two weeks

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!