Helping users explore data becomes increasingly more important as databases get larger and more complex. In this demo, we present PyExplore, a data exploration tool aimed at helping end users formulate queries over new datasets. PyExplore takes as input an initial query from the user along with some parameters and provides interesting queries by leveraging data correlations and diversity.

In this demonstration, we present DatAgent , an intelligent data assistant system that allows users to ask queries in natural language, and can respond in natural language as well. Moreover, the system actively guides the user using different types of recommendations and hints, and learns from user actions. We will demonstrate different exploration scenarios that show how the system and the user engage in a human-like interaction inspired by the interaction paradigm of chatbots and virtual assistants.

An ever-increasing number of applications in critical domains, such as maritime and aviation, generate, collect, manage and process spatio-temporal data related to the mobility of entities. This wealth of data can be exploited for various purposes, towards improving the safety of operations, reducing economical costs, and increasing dependability: The major issue to achieve these objectives is increasing predictability of moving objects' trajectories and events. To achieve this purpose in a data-driven way we need to exploit in integrated manners data from a variety of disparate and heterogeneous data sources, both streaming and archival, regarding – among other – surveillance, weather, and contextual data. Motivated by this fact, in this paper, we propose a framework for semantic integration of big mobility data with other data sources that are necessary to data analytics tasks, providing a unified representation of such data. Notable features of our framework include the real-time generation of data synopses of moving entities' trajectories, the efficient and flexible transformation of data from heterogeneous and big data sources in RDF, and the spatio-temporal link discovery between spatio-temporal entities in diverse data sources. The design and implementation of our framework uses big data technologies (Apache Flink and Kafka), and our experimental evaluation demonstrates the efficiency and scalability of the proposed framework using large, real-life datasets.

We present a big data framework for the prediction of streaming trajectory data, enriched from other data sources and exploiting mined patterns of trajectories, allowing accurate long-term predictions with low latency. To meet this goal, we follow a multi-step methodology. First, we efficiently compress surveillance data in an online fashion, by constructing trajectory synopses that are spatio-temporally linked with streaming and archival data from a variety of diverse and heterogeneous data sources. The enriched stream of trajectory synopses is stored in a distributed RDF store, supporting data exploration via SPARQL queries. The enriched stream of synopses along with the raw data is consumed by trajectory prediction algorithms that exploit mined patterns from the RDF store, namely medoids of (sub-) trajectory clusters, which prolong the horizon of useful predictions. The framework is extended with offline and online interactive visual analytics tool to facilitate real world analysis in the maritime and the aviation domains.