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[yump] 04/1/2013 10:24

Crucially, what is being talked about above as research, is something SPA have as an ongoing and viable business, so we're not in the league of pie in the sky imagination. Its here now.

[yump] 04/1/2013 10:21

I think you may be right that this area of investment has been overlooked.

One key aspect is the separation of the data from the document or source that generated it. That opens up a 'new world' of ability to query and combine the information, to use by organisations, whether commercial, government or social.

Did a bit of digging and came across what seems to be a good overview of big data, particularly the spatial type. From a workshop intro, International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2012:

Link:

This is the intro:

The rapidly increasing information universe with new data created at a speed surpassing our capacities to store it, calls for improved methods to retrieve, filter, integrate, and share data. The vision of a data-intensive science hopes that the open availability of data with a higher spatial, temporal, and thematic resolution will enable us to better address complex scientific and social questions.

However, on the downside, understanding, sharing, and reusing these data becomes more challenging. Big Data is not only big because it involves a huge amount of data, but also because of the high-dimensionality and inter-linkage of these data sets.

The on-the-fly integration of heterogeneous data from various sources has been named one of the frontiers of Digital Earth research, Bioinformatics, the Digital Humanities, and other emerging research visions.

From a more technical perspective, a knowledge infrastructure is required to handle Big Data. Currently, the most promising approach is the Linked Data cloud. While the Web has changed with the advent of the Social Web from mostly authoritative towards increasing amounts of user-generated content, it is essentially still about linked documents. These documents provide structure and context for the described data and easy their interpretation.

In contrast, the upcoming Data Web is about linking data, not documents. Such data sets are not bound to a specific document but can be easily combined and used outside of the original context.

With a growth rate of millions of new facts encoded as RDF-triples per month, the Linked Data cloud allows users to answer complex queries spanning multiple sources. Due to the uncoupling of data from its original creation context, semantic interoperability, identity resolution, and ontologies are central methodologies to ensure consistency and meaningful results.

Space and time are fundamental ordering relations to structure such data and provide an implicit context for their interpretation. Prominent geo-related Linked Data hubs include Geonames.org as well as the Linked Geo Data project, which provides a RDF serialization of Open Street Map. Furthermore, many other Linked Data sources contain location references, e.g., observation data provided by sensors.

[412069] 03/1/2013 11:15

Dev. I think one of the big boys could take us out if big data is the next big thing.

[yump] 03/1/2013 10:32

Just having a nose around, on the basis that the big data market is going to grow for a long time. Also appears a lot of turnover was bought for £5mln, that looks like it gives at least £1.5mln ebitda annually. That's a very good deal, assuming the one-offs really were that.

Also looks like the share price reacted to the early October announcement but not to the subsequent ones, which seem just as significant.

[devil20] 03/1/2013 09:36

412. Don't get too excited! It's going to be a long haul imo. Let's hope SPA performs anyway.

[412069] 02/1/2013 21:03

Happy new yr all. Thought today's massive jump in stocks would lift us a touch. Still 2013 starting with a big bang at least.

[412069] 29/12/2012 13:58

If Big Datas going to be the next big thing as people are saying and Spa say they are the world largest providers we are attached to a rocket her. I'm not up on I T and i need to research a touch to understand a bit more. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be happy.

[gleach23] 28/12/2012 20:05

i like the look of the higher lows on the chart in the last 6 weeks...let's hope we can leave 4p behind once and for all in the new year

[andrbea] 28/12/2012 16:17

general article (uk & big data)

[412069] 28/12/2012 15:39

Seams were still rising with sells going through. 2013 could be are year lads. Contract figures should show up, that's without winning any more. I'm betting we get the Aussie order next.

[ged5] 28/12/2012 13:52

Thanks! Better take the boat then. ;)

[412069] 28/12/2012 13:50

GED roads were very bad yesterday a friend took six hours to get to Scarborough from Burnley.

[gleach23] 28/12/2012 13:38

thanks Ged, same to you...no idea re east yorks but good luck!

[gleach23] 28/12/2012 13:37

50k now available at 4.5 but bid up to 4.3 (375k available)

[ged5] 28/12/2012 13:35

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

A good end to the year.

L2 is now 1v2

4.25v4.5

Wins just moved down at 1.25pm at the same time as the 200000 trade at 4.25p

Not really paying much attention. Clearing up after a long week of entertaining our children and grandchilren. Also getting ready for a week in the flooded east coast of Yorkshire. Anyone know how bad it is over there?

[412069] 28/12/2012 13:21

Cheers, I'm on my iPhone can't access other sites. Wonder if there's another large buy being played here.

[gleach23] 28/12/2012 13:10

i dont subscribe to L2 but looking at dummy trades on selftrade there is only 10k on offer at 4.5

[412069] 28/12/2012 12:54

Gleach whats L2 like at the mo,

[412069] 28/12/2012 11:59

Most stock in safe hands here. Should see that 7.5 taken out very soon then.

[gleach23] 28/12/2012 11:54

no stock around - only 7.5k @ 4.25 :-)

meanwhile bid is up to 4.21

[412069] 27/12/2012 12:46

Nice little rise today all.

[gleach23] 24/12/2012 12:08

ooh that's a nice big late trade - 1.1m @ 4.4p! only 25k share on offer at 3.99 and 375k @ 3.88 on the bid currently

dare i say it, but it bodes well for the new year :)

[devil20] 20/12/2012 09:06

412. Same to you.

[412069] 20/12/2012 08:55

Morning all, have a nice christmas and see you in the new year which SPA will hopefully come good.