Dear DAPLAB’ers, there are still some places available for the workshop on data science co-organized by eXascale Infolab (UNIFR) and iCoSys (HEIA-FR). When: afternoons of 19 and 20th of October 2017 Where: UNIFR / HEIA-FR What (in french): Ce workshop organisé par IT-Valley s’adresse à tout informaticien désirant découvrir l’univers du Big Data et de la […]
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With a model similar to fablabs, DAPLAB aims at facilitating the access for enterprises and universities to emerging technologies in the area of big data and intelligent data analysis.
Many business processes are nowadays generating significant volumes of data that contains valuable information. The main objective of DAPLAB is to reduce the entry barrier for Swiss companies to find value out of their data and ultimately turn into a data-driven company.
DAPLAB will answer the needs of educational and economic partners through the integration of analytic algorithms, benchmark data sets and education materials. As a central point of activities, DAPLAB will manage a cluster of servers dedicated to data storage and computation, based on Hadoop and ecosystem, to which universities and companies will have access.