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Be Data Driven. Join Data Drivers!

Join Splunk’s IT Strategists and The Big Data Beard for Data Drivers; an iRacing Championship Series and Hands-on Hackathons to learn how Splunk’s powerful IT tools turn racing data into action!

ICYMI, The Big Data Beard team hosted the Virtual Race To .conf20, a broadcast of a Championship Racing Series on the iRacing.com platform in the 10 days leading up to .conf20. They also created an easy way to get more than 300 metrics out of iRacing and into Splunk which they used to surface insights into the racing action and created the most played BOTN scenario of .conf20!

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN to get in on the racing action and get hands-on experience using Splunk powerful IT tools to develop data-driven insights into the race.

Join the Splunk IT Strategist team for an exciting series of live-streamed events on Splunk’s official Twitch channel that will include:

iRacing Championship Series -

We need data after all, so we will host the Data Drivers Championship Racing Series on iRacing with monthly races broadcast on Splunk’s Twitch Stream while we create the data we need!

Race Date (12PM PT) Race Track Broadcast Date (12PM PT)
March 30 Barber Motorsports Park April 1
April 27 Brands Hatch April 29
June 1 Circuit De Spa June 3
June 22 Bristol Motor Speedway June 24
July 20 Twin Ring Motegi July 22
August 17 Sonoma Raceway August 19

Hackathons -

Turning data into action is what Splunk’s Data-To-Everything platform is all about, so we’ll be hosting a live session with Splunk subject matter experts to explore how unique IT functionality in Splunk can be applied to our racing scenarios. This will be a great chance to learn tips and tricks on how to leverage Splunk in creative ways to bring data to every question, decision and action!

Date (12PM PT) Topic
April 2 Intro, participant access overview, Windows Smart Agent on gaming PC
April 30 iRacing GDI: Custom data ingestion with Python
June 4 Getting started with ITSI: Build KPIs that matter
June 25 Build a "service" that is our race
July 23 Race Day visualizations for the pit wall
August 20 Data to action & thresholds at speed

Join Data Drivers and compete with drivers from around the world while getting hands-on experience using Splunk’s incredible Data-To-Everything platform.

Be data driven. Join Data Drivers!

Looking To Get Started?

Sign up here! We'll be emailing links for the repos and instructions on getting setup.

Go follow https://www.twitch.tv/splunkinc for all the upcoming broadcasts

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