Chair: Heinrich C. Mayr
The era of big data has arrived. Big data brings us the data-driven paradigm and enlightens us to challenge different classes of problems we were not able to solve in the past. We are beginning to see the impacts of big data in every aspect of our lives and society. There are myriads of big data technologies available to us and much hype on how we can make the most of those technologies to extract values from big data projects. The conceptual modeling community has brought analysis and design as the key components of software and information system development lifecycles. In this talk, I argue that the conceptual modeling community could significantly contribute to the understanding, development, management, and education related to big data projects. I will review recent advances in big data technologies and best practices in big data project management. Then, I will present how the conceptual modeling community could contribute to the successful use of big data technologies and what we can do for the management of big data projects. Finally, I will present several applications from healthcare projects in which I have been involved.
