News,Science

DynamoGraph: Final Presentation

31 Jan , 2017  

Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled “DynamoGraph: Large-scale Temporal Graph Processing and its Application Scenarios”. After almost 5 years of research in the area of large and temporal graphs, this milestone is finished, although there are still so many interesting things to uncover.

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Science

Making Computers Understand Parliamentary Democracy

7 Sep , 2016  

In recent years a tremendous raise in the establishment of Open Data initiatives can be observed, aiming at more transparency in government and public institutions. One facet of this trend are data from legislative bodies, including records and archived transcripts of plenary sessions as a measure of transparency and accountability. More…

Science,Teaching

How fit are you?

7 Jun , 2016  

Teachers of statistic courses and students self-educating themselves in statistical methods often lack real-world datasets to perform their analysis on. Truth to be told, performing linear regression analysis on made-up data also works but is only half the fun. This is why we asked the crowd to answer a simple fitness survey and here is the data.
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Science

TempWeb 2016: Implementation of DynamoGraph

12 Apr , 2016  

This years TempWeb 2016 is taking place as a co-located workshop with WWW’16. It is an exciting pleasure to  More…

News

Splace Magazine 2nd Edition

22 Jan , 2016  

Together with the team at the University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz) our group at the Institute of Telecooperation, for the second time, held a joint course on Mobile Media Design. The intended output of this course is a novel digital magazine. More…

News

Six Ways To Use Big Data / InformationWeek.com

4 Jul , 2015  

Last month I was lucky enough to get interviewed by Lisa Morgan writing an article on How To Use Data To Outsmart Your Competitors. More…

Science

Using Big Data for Intelligent Mobile Services w/ Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition

11 Jun , 2015  

This week I spent at ICOST 2015, the 13th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics with this years theme on Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health. The conference takes place from 10th – 12th June 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. More…

Science

High Velocity Big Data / Application Scenarios

21 May , 2015  

Data arrives at very high velocity

Today I gave a talk at the annual IDC DataHub event in Vienna at the Austria Trend Hotel Park Royal Palace. The talk covered basic technology available for high-velocity, streaming Big Data. We discussed  More…