Engineering and OW2 Big Data Initiative:

an open approach to the data-driven economy

Workshop on

Embracing Potential of Big Data

BIGDATA 2014

12 December 2014

Pisa, Italy

Who is Engineering

Engineering’s approach to Big Data

Extracting value from datavalue from data is the economy driver in

21st century

An olysticolystic and collaborative approachand collaborative approach is

necessary which combines skills and technologies to

obtain best results

A Big Data competency centerBig Data competency center is a key factor to

monitor technologies and to develop projects and

collaborations with vendors, academia and open source

communities

The specific value of openness

Some activities and initiatives

Hadoop User Group Italy

@HUG_Italy

Big Data Value Association

Industry-led contractual counterpart to the European

Commission for the implementation of the Big Data

Value PPP. A basic principle is openness,

transparency and inclusiveness

Engineering Tributi

Applying semantic technologies and ontology to

properly join and cross data about and around

citizens, coming from different administrations and

different means with a focus on territorial data

Engineering Finance

From Big Data to Right Data. Enriching business

and transactional data with data coming from social

media bridging governance and business

requirements so as to better synchronize financial

institutions with the marketLeading the OW2 Big Data Initiative

What is OW2

OW2 and Collaborative R&D Projects

OW2 provides community support and

dissemination services to OSS collaborative projectsTechnical platform

Community building

Events and media

Disseminations collateral

The OW2 Initiatives

Why the Big Data Initiative

Attract a vibrant ecosystemvibrant ecosystem around Big Data

technologies

Create an environment where interinter--disciplinary disciplinary

competencescompetences are expressed in joint projects

DefineDefine synergiessynergies and contribute to similar initiatives

Members

Some Addressed Topics

Data Data MiningMining

AdvancedAdvanced visualisationvisualisation

IntelligentIntelligent data data capturecapture

Social media Social media analysisanalysis

CollaborationCollaboration

LinkedLinked (open) data(open) data

StreamStream ProcessingProcessing

Example: social listening

Example: social listening, intelligent data capture

Data preparation Warehouse Processing Final Reports / Quality Check

Hadoop ClusterAnticipated quality check

Identification of key records

Uncompressed data loading directly

into the DWH Staging

Optimized loading

Example: social listening, analysis

Dataset

Cassandra

Neo4j

mongoDB

OrientDB

HDFS

Hive

HBase

Impala

Available data sources:

Example: social listening, visualization

Hashtags and Topics Cloud

Networks

Locations

Leveraging the federation of enterprise

and social data with Machine Learning

to support predictive analysis

How to join

Visit the OW2 Big Data Initiative web site

www.ow2.org/www.ow2.org/viewview//Big_DataBig_Data