Fast Cars, Big Data - How Streaming Can Help Formula 1

Explore how modern data streaming technologies can revolutionize Formula 1 data acquisition and analysis in this hour-long conference talk. Discover a working demonstration using a high-fidelity physics-based automotive simulator to produce realistic data from simulated cars on the Spa-Francorchamps track. Learn about the process of moving data from cars to pits to engineers, resulting in near real-time visualization and performance comparison. Gain insights into utilizing messaging systems like Kafka, real-time data processing with Apache Spark, and data analysis using SQL with Apache Drill. Benefit from the speaker's expertise as a Technical Evangelist and open-source advocate, and access the open-source code from this presentation to apply these concepts in your own projects.

Fast Cars, Big Data - How Streaming Can Help Formula 1 by Tugdual Grall