From July 11-15 2016, the Big Data Center of Excellence (ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig) was excited to host its 2nd International Summer School on Big Data in Leipzig. The summer school took place at the lecture hall building of the Leipzig University.

Program & Highlights 

The summer school provided overviews as well as deep dive sessions about the following topic highlights:

• Big Data Storage/ NoSQL
• Distributed Data Processing (HPC/MapReduce/Streaming/Spark/Flink)
• Graph Analytics/Management
• Big Data Integration

Supervised hands-on sessions were offered in three parallel tracks. Each track covered the same basic Big Data concepts but with a different use case from a different domain:

A: Text Mining (text reuse)
B: Genome Alignment Processing
C: Logistics

Below is the full program with additional information about the speakers and their topics:

Monday 11.07.16

Time	Person	Topic
13:20 – 14:20	Prof. Erhard Rahm	Big Data Integration
14:20 – 15:10	Prof. Peter Boncz	Benchmarking Graph Data Analysis with LDBC
15:10 – 15:40	BREAK	BREAK
15:40 – 16:30	Prof. Sherif Sakr	Big Data 2.0 Processing Engines
18:00 – 19:30		Guided Sightseeing Tour

Tuesday 12.07.16 | Big Data Storage/NoSQL

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:50	Prof. Stefan Edlich	NoSQL: State of the Art & New Developments
09:50 – 10:40	Prof. Andreas Thor	NewSQL, SQL on Hadoop
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK	BREAK
11:10 – 12:00	Dr. Anika Groß	NoSQL- Datastores for Big Data
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:00 – 13:50		Practical Courses: System Introduction (MongoDB)
13:50 – 15:10		Practical Courses: A: Text Mining, B: Genome Alignment Processing, C: Logistics (see above)
15:10 – 15:40	BREAK	BREAK
15:40 – 16:30		Practical Courses (cont.) A, B, C
18:00 – 22:00		Water Sport and Barbecue

Wednesday 13.07.16 | Distributed Data Processing

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:50	Prof. Kai-Uwe Sattler	Big Data Stream-processing
09:50 – 10:40	Dr. Tilmann Rabl	Distributed Data Processing and Streaming in Flink
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK	BREAK
11:10 – 12:00	Nico Hoffmann	Introduction to Big Data Analytics on HPC clusters
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:00 – 13:50		Practical Courses: System Introduction (Apache Flink)
13:50 – 15:10		Practical Courses: A: Text Mining, B: Genome Alignment Processing, C: Logistics (see above)
15:10 – 15:40	BREAK	BREAK
15:40 – 16:30		Practical Courses (cont.) A, B, C
19:00 – 23:00		Summer School Dinner

Thursday 14.07.16 | Graph Analytics

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:50	Prof. Dennis Shasha	Finding Motifs in Colored Graphs
09:50 – 10:40	Vasia Kalavri	Graph processing on Apache Flink with the Gelly framework
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK	BREAK
11:10 – 12:00	Martin Junghanns	Graph Analytics with Gradoop
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH	LUNCH
13:00 – 13:50	Prof. Sören Auer	(Big) Knowledge Graphs
13:50 – 15:10		Practical Courses System Introduction (Flink Gelly) A: Text Mining, B: Genome Alignment Processing, C: Logistics (see above)
15:10 – 15:40	BREAK	BREAK
15:40 – 16:30		Practical Courses (cont.) A, B, C

Friday 15.07.16 | Big Data Integration

Time	Person	Topic
09:00 – 09:50	Prof. Peter Christen	Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage
09:50 – 10:40	Prof. Themis Palpanas	Blocking for Big Data Integration
10:40 – 11:10	BREAK	BREAK
11:10 – 12:00	Dr. Maik Thiele	Building the Dresden Web Table Corpus and Beyond
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH	LUNCH

Organizers

The summer school was organized by ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) e.V. at the Leipzig University.

Dr. Eric Peukert ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Lars-Peter Meyer University Computing Center, Leipzig University Jochen Tiepmar Leipzig University Norman Spangenberg ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University Fabian Externbrink Bioinformatics, Leipzig University Dirk Zeckzer Leipzig University Lisa Winkler ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University

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