Reduces the entry barrier for companies to find value out of their data and ultimately turn into a data-driven company
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 […]
Dear users and friends, Thanks to a great team effort, the DAPLAB stack has been updated to the latest version. We are now running HDP 2.6.1 ! The following technologies have also been upgraded in the process: HDP 2.6.1 Ambari 2.5.2 Spark 1.6.2 Spark2 2.1.1 Kafka 0.10.1 Cassandra 3.11 Flink 1.4 We hope you will […]
VoldemortKG is an exciting project which explores the extent to which entities represented in different ways repeat on the Web, how they are related, and how they complement (or link) to each other. It has released a paper as well as made available its first results on this website. DAPLAB has made available the resources needed to create the […]
We presented “Big Data for SME with DAPLAB” in Champery at the 49th “Journée Romandes des Arts et Métiers”. About 100 people were attending at this conference about “Numérisation – Chances et Défis pour les PMEs” in Champery (CH), 27th and 28th of June 2016. More information here. DAPLAB actually interested many people who contacted us […]
We are proud to announce that the DAPLAB upgraded to the latest HortonWorks release, HDP 2.4.2. The upgrade went perfectly well, thanks to the skills of our technical team. The official Apache versions of most HDP 2.4.2 components are unchanged from HDP 2.4.0.0, with the exception of Spark and Kafka. Spark is upgraded from 1.6.0 to […]
On Saturday 5th of March, DAPLAB and its partners were featured on the Swiss television news (in french). We were able to introduce our activities and illustrate them with partner case studies of Infoteam and Swisscom.
We’re pretty delighted to announce that EIA-FR has accepted to be an official Hub for the next Google #HashCode, Thursday Feb 11. Since Thursdays is our hacky day, let’s code something different (or not, we’ll see :)). When Thursday, February 11. Doors open at 6pm, and will close around midnight. What Google #HashCode Contest Where Room […]
As announced a few weeks back, we’ll change the layout of the weekly DAPLAB sessions and come up with broader subject, spanning on several weeks. The first session we’re proposing is called Zefix Notifier. In a nutshell, we’ll ingest data from the Central Business Names Index of Switzerland (Zentraler Firmenindex, or Zefix in short). We’ll also […]
A new tutorial is available on docs.daplab.ch. It will guide you through the basics of Apache Spark and its scala interpreter (spark-shell). Enjoy !
A new tutorial is available on docs.daplab.ch. It will guide you through the basics of Apache Pig. Enjoy !