David S. Read

I’m glad you asked. Scott Van Buren and I will be presenting a Dataversity webinar entitled, Using Semantic Technology to Drive Agile Analytics, on exactly that topic. Scheduled for May 14, 2014 (and available for replay afterwards), this webinar will highlight key semantic technology capabilities and how those provide an environment for data agility.

We will focus most of the webinar on a case study that demonstrates the agility of semantic technology being used to conduct data analysis within a healthcare payer organization. Healthcare expertise is not required in order to understand the case study.

As we look into several iterations of data federation and analysis, we will see the effectiveness of bringing the right subset of data together at the right time for a particular data-centric use. This concept translates well to businesses that have multiple sets of data or applications, including data from third parties, and seek to combine relevant subsets of that information for reporting or analytics. Further, we will see how this augments data warehousing projects, where the lightweight and agile data federation approach informs the warehouse design.

Please plan to  join us virtually on May 14 as we describe semantic technology, lightweight data federation and agile data analytics. There will also be time for you to pose questions and delve into areas of interest that we do not cover in our presentation.

The webinar registration page is: http://content.dataversity.net/051414BlueslateWebinar_DVRegistrationPage.html

We look forward to having the opportunity to share our data agility thoughts and experiences with you.

I am thrilled to have been invited back to participate at the Semantic Technology and Business (SemTechBiz) conference. This is the premier US conference for learning about, exploring and getting your hands on semantic technology. I’ll be part of a Blue Slate team (including Scott Van Buren and Michael Delaney) who will be conducting a half-day hands-on workshop, Integrating Data Using Semantic Technology, on August 19, 2014. Our mission is to have participants use semantic technology to integrate, federate and perform analysis across several data sources.

We have some work to do to iron out our overall use case, pulling from work we have done with several clients. At a minimum we’ll be working with database schemas, ontologies, reasoners and data analytics tools. It will be a fun and educational experience for attendees.

I’ll post more specifics once the SemTechBiz agenda is published and we have finalized the workshop structure. I hope to see you this August 19-21 in San Jose for our workshop and the amazing learning opportunities throughout the conference.

For more information on the conference, visit its website: http://semtechbizsj2014.semanticweb.com/index.cfm