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A Platform For Scalable Low-Latency Analytics Using Mapreduce, Boduo Li Aug 2015

A Platform For Scalable Low-Latency Analytics Using Mapreduce, Boduo Li

Doctoral Dissertations

Today, the ability to process "big data" has become crucial to the information needs of many enterprise businesses, scientific applications, and governments. Recently, there have been increasing needs of processing data that is not only "big" but also "fast". Here "fast data" refers to high-speed real-time and near real-time data streams, such as Twitter feeds, search query streams, click streams, impressions, and system logs. To handle both historical data and real-time data, many companies have to maintain multiple systems. However, recent real-world case studies show that maintaining multiple systems cause not only code duplication, but also intensive manual work to …


Epistemological Databases For Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction, Michael Louis Wick Mar 2015

Epistemological Databases For Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction, Michael Louis Wick

Doctoral Dissertations

Knowledge bases (KB) facilitate real world decision making by providing access to structured relational information that enables pattern discovery and semantic queries. Although there is a large amount of data available for populating a KB; the data must first be gathered and assembled. Traditionally, this integration is performed automatically by storing the output of an information extraction pipeline directly into a database as if this prediction were the ``truth.'' However, the resulting KB is often not reliable because (a) errors accumulate in the integration pipeline, and (b) they persist in the KB even after new information arrives that could rectify …