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HPCC Systems is a distributed big data technology used by LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group.  It was, in fact, created by LNRS long before Hadoop came along and it still serves as the core technology behind a $3B/year business.

In this workshop you will be introduced to the HPCC Systems technology and to the data flow language used to program on it, ECL.  The data you will be examining is a detailed global schedule of airline flights.  Each record contains not only takeoff/landing places and times, but details regarding the plane, meals, and crew are included as well.

Monday, January 23

• Introduction to HPCC Systems
• Introduction to ECL
• Student IDE setup and configuration
• Data Discovery — getting acquainted with the flight data
• Review data dictionary
• Profiling the actual data
• Manual inspection via simple ECLIntro and welcome – Bob, Richard, Hugo
• Internship info session – Hugo 
• Lecture on Data Evaluation, Crosstab, Profiling – Richard/Bob
• Lab Period – Bob
• 1:1 Internship/Career discussion - Hugo 

Tuesday, January 24

• ECL concepts
• Practical ECL with flight dataLecture on PROJECT, Sequencing, Standardization – Richard/Bob
• Lab Period – Bob
• 1:1 Internship/Career discussion - Hugo   

Wednesday, January 25

• ECL concepts (cont'd)
• Practical ECL with flight data (cont'd)Lecture on Data Delivery (ROXIE) – Richard/Bob
• Lab Period – Bob
• 1:1 Internship/Career discussion - Hugo   

Thursday, January 26

• ECL concepts (cont'd)
• Practical ECL with flight data (cont'd)

• Lecture on ECL Cookbook, XML/JSON Techniques - Richard/Bob
• Lab Period - Bob
• 1:1 Internship/Career discussion - Hugo   

Bob Foreman 

Hugo Watanuki

Richard Taylor

A laptop

The following are recommended but optional:

Learn about ECL - HPCC Systems ECL Concepts videos

• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 1
• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 2
• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 3
• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 4
• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 5
• HPCC Systems ECL Concepts Part 6

Learn about ECL - Documentation: https://hpccsystems.com/training/documentation

• Learning ECL
• ECL IDE and Client Tools
• Tutorials

Install IDE

VS Code - Supported operating systems

• macOS
• Windows
• CentOS 6 and 7
• Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, and 19.04

Installation instructions: https://wiki.hpccsystems.com/display/hpcc/VS+Code+and+HPCC+Systems+Installation+Cheat+Sheet

ECL IDE -Supported operating systems: Windows

• Instructions
• Download from https://hpccsystems.com/download#HPCC-Platform
• Select "Windows" from the Operating System drop-down
• Select "ECL IDE and Client Tools for Windows" checkbox
• Click Download button