Third Galway Data Meetup
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The third Galway Data meetup will take place on Wednesday, August the 5th. The keynote by Luca Costabello, Researcher at Fujitsu UK and Ireland will focus on Apache Kylin (http://kylin.incubator.apache.org), a new distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on top of Apache Hadoop. Ioana Hulpus will show us how to use knowledge graphs and Neo4j to understand Irish politics!
Come and join us at Altocloud’s offices for an evening of pizza, drinks and discussions around exciting Big Data technologies.
Come early as the supply of pizza and seats are limited!
Agenda:
• 6:30pm: Networking, pizza and drinks
Talks:
• 7:00pm: Ioana Hulpus (https://www.insight-centre.org/users/ioana-hulpus): Introduction to (knowledge) graphs, Neo4j and Irish politics.
Ioana is a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) at the Insight Centre, NUI-Galway. Her current work focuses on enriching the content of text documents with external structured knowledge. Her research interests cover graph-based methods for text analysis, word-sense disambiguation, graph properties of structured knowledge bases, unsupervised machine learning, social network analysis and information diffusion. She received her PhD in 2014 at the same institute. As part of her PhD she researched graph algorithms on knowledge graphs and their use for the integration of Linked Data with unstructured text
• 7:30pm: Luca Costabello (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14936726): Apache Kylin - a distributed and scalable OLAP engine built on Hadoop.
Luca is postdoctoral fellow at the Fujitsu Linked Data Research Team in Galway. His research interests span Web data management, data integration, mining of structured data on the Web, and the ubiquitous Web of Data. He obtained a PhD from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the French Institute for Research in Computer Science (Inria), where he worked on context-aware access to the Web of Data. He is the author of many publications in international conferences and journals.
Location:
Room 117 (ground floor), Ignite / TTO, NUI Galway
Please refer to the below link for the exact location.
Sponsors:
Drinks and pizza will be provided by Altocloud (http://www.altocloud.com/).
Third Galway Data Meetup