800+ Big Data researchers and practitioners descended to the US capital to discuss the latest advancements in Big Data for this IEEE event. The event took place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill. It was my first time at this particular IEEE Big Data event, which usually coincides with NIPS or ICDM - other great events in my domain of interest. The first day started with a several workshops. I decided to attend the “Workshop on Textual Customer Feedback Mining and Transfer Learning”