Big Data Analytics: technology’s hottest trend

Overviews and demonstrators of analytics transforming data to insight to value

CeADAR: Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research

edward.mcdonnell@ucd.ie

Mission

Themes

Governance

Programme

CeADAR: Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research

CeADAR is an industry-led

technology centre

for innovation and applied research

that accelerates the development,

deployment and adoption

of Big Data Analytics technology

CeADAR’s industry-defined themes

Visualisation & Analytic Interfaces

• ‘Beyond the desktop’

• Ease of interaction

• Changing user behaviour

• Passive analytics

Data Management for Analytics

• Reduce data management effort for analytics

• Data validation

• Relevance of events to relationships

• Data curation (determining useful data)

• Adaptive ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)

Advanced Analytics

• Causation challenge

• Live topic monitoring

• Social trending and contextualisation

• Continuous analytics

• Social Identity fingerprinting

Governance model: Industry Steering Board (ISB)

ISB is CeADAR’s main governing

body

Independent industry

chairperson

6 industry members

3 PIs

Platform research projects must be approved by ISB

Research projects require ≥ 2 industry member sponsors

ISB allocates resource from core

funding for an initial 6 months

After 6 months:

• The project is concluded •or • 3 month (max) extension

09:00-09:30 Hands-on Big Data Analytics demonstrators

09:30-09:40 Welcome Introduction to CeADAR Edward McDonnell

09:40-10:10 Overview of Big Data Analytics

Visualisation & Analytic Interfaces Brian Mac Namee (DIT)

Data Management for Analytics Barry O’Sullivan (UCC)

Advanced Analytics Oisin Boydell (UCD)

10:10-10:40 Experts Panel ‘Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities’

Maurice Lynch (Nathean), Tom Crispie (QUMAS/BIOVIA), Aidan Connolly (Idiro)

Barry O’Sullivan (UCC), Brian Mac Namee (DIT), Oisin Boydell (UCD)

10:40-11:25 Industry Session

Advanced Analytics: Kevin Neary (Connectors MarketPlace) & Aidan Connolly (Idiro) & Oisin Boydell (UCD)

Data Management for Analytics:

Nick Grattan (QUMAS now part of BIOVIA) & Liam O’Toole (UCC)

Visualisation & Analytic Interfaces:

Maurice Lynch (Nathean) & Eoghan O’Shea (DIT)

11:25-11:30 Working with CeADAR Edward McDonnell

11:30-13:00 Hands-on Big Data Analytics demonstrators

12:00 Lunch

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