2. Introduction
• What is Data Mining?
• How is it relevant to the
mobile world?
• What can be discovered?
• Techniques and
technologies used:
– Matrix and Network Theory
– Semantic Analysis
– Statistical Analysis
– Predictive Analytics
– Visualisation
3. TSSG & 3CS R&D
• Service Reporting
– Data Warehousing: ETL,
Star Schema;
• Service Analytics
– Predictive Analytics:
Classification, Clustering,
Frequent Pattern Mining
• Service
Recommendation
– Passive Collaborative
Filtering
4. A Case Study of our
Industry Engagement
• Using Social Network Analysis in the
Criminal Intelligence Domain
– Internal Intelligence
• Land Registry
• Ports Authority
• Revenue
• Court Transcripts
– Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• Newspapers
• Internet Forums
• Social Networking Websites
• Uncover people and relationships
previously unknown to the authorities.
• S.N.A. techniques to discover social
patterns in criminal organisations.
5. TSSG & 3CS’s Near-Term R&D
• National
– PADIE
• Large scale Data Warehousing project for processing Data
– Content Recommender
• Content recommendation based on semantic analysis of
reviews.
• European
– Societies
• Community Smart Spaces.
– SNAP
• Professional services social network. Dynamic relationships
created based on semantic analysis of current situation.
6. TSSG and 3CS Long-Term R&D
Roadmap
• Volume of Data increasing
– ROI for data storage is increasing.
• Structured Data Vs Unstructured
– Marketing
– Identifying Key Product Influencers
• Context Enabled Services
– Mobile based services
– Location, Time, presence
• Data Privacy
– Laws governing data privacy becoming increasingly strict
– Public knowledge and understanding of privacy issues becoming
more apparent.
7. Industry Predictions for
2014
• Internet searching to be replaced by personal
social networks.
• Changes to data protection and ownership laws.
– Empowering people to manage their own
data.
• Changes to privacy laws and expectations will
completely change Social Networking Websites.
– Privacy laws as a competitive weapon?
8. Contact
Eric Robson
Knowledge Discovery and Databases
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology
erobson@tssg.org
http://ie.linkedin.com/in/erobson
+353 51 302960 (w)
