On October 3rd in New York City, the NY/NJ/CT Chapter of the Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) is hosting a free half day event about practical applications of Big Data.

The event will cover a range of big data use cases, including but not limited to Social Media as a new data source.

The keynote speaker plans to share case studies related to social media, while much of the other speakers will share case studies focused on other types of Big Data, on both the…