Working with the vast variety of data out there can be a huge challenge for organizations. We believe that a “one size does not fit all” solution is required to work with such data. The BigDAWG polystore is a federated DB system for multiple, disparate data models. It supports the notions of location transparency and […]
Enigma is a decentralized cloud platform with guaranteed privacy. Private data is stored, shared and analyzed without ever being fully revealed to any party. Secure multi-party computation, empowered by the blockchain, is the magical technology behind it. Presenter: Guy Zyskind paper: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy You can learn more at the enigma website: enigma.media.mit.edu
The SIEUFERD system is a general-purpose query- and report-building interface for relational databases. By manipulating a special kind of data visualization known as a nested relation, and using spreadsheet constructs such as formulas and filters, a user can formulate arbitrary queries over any PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle database. Presenter: Eirik Bakke Papers: databaseui_cidr2011 related_worksheets infovis2013 Project Website: The […]
DataXFormer is a system that leverages Web tables, Web forms, and expert sourcing to cover a wide range of transformations. Also presented is a system of user-interaction with DataXFormer. This show scenarios on how it can be used to transform data and explore the effectiveness and efficiency of several approaches for transformation discovery, leveraging about […]
Earlier in April, Vijay Gadepally, Jeremy Kepner, and the kind people at MIT Lincoln Labs were kind enough to lend us their 3 dimensional model of MIT’s campus. It took some skews, stretches, rotations, and elbow grease, but we ultimately able to pair the model with a dataset of MIT’s wifi activity. From there, we were able to visualize […]
The MIT big data Living Lab team is partnering with the MIT Medical getfit@MIT fitness challenge team to develop a mobile activity logger. Every spring semester, MIT Medical runs a getfit@mit challenge to encourage fitness at MIT. For the challenge, participants join teams and log their activities to the getfit@mit website. The challenge had been […]
Last week, Kelly, Guy, and I attended HackMIT – one of the most prestigious hackathons in the world – as sponsor judges for the Big Data Initiative at MIT CSAIL. There, we listened to speeches, mentored students, and (importantly) encouraged students to hack on our newly released wifi data. Oh. What’s that? You didn’t […]