On 15th and 16th of November, Bozen (South Tyrol – Italy) hosted the 19th edition of the Free Software Conference. It is an annual conference aimed at the general public, but in particular at decision-makers in the public administration and business worlds. The Free Software Conference (SFScon) promotes the use of Free Software in IT infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region.

The OW2 Consortium sponsored the event and managed a track of speeches in the Seminar 4 on Friday afternoon. In the first speech of OW2 track, Cedric Thomas, OW2 CEO, presented FOSS Models and Upcoming Challenges. Then, Grazia Cazzin, Knowage Director, took the stage and presented how KNOWAGE is the effective open source answer to the new needs in data analysis and exploration. The track ended with the speech of Paolo Boldi, full professor and co-ordinator of the PhD Program in Computer Science (Department of Computer Science, University of Milan) about FASTEN project.

More info about OW2: https://www.ow2.org/

The previous news about Knowage participation to the SFScon: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/free-software-conference-in-bozen/

EU DataViz 2019 took place on 12 November 2019 in Luxembourg. The event, organised by the Publications Office of the European Union and supported by the ISA² programme of the European Commission, aimed to bring together the data visualisation community of the public sector in order to present and explore emerging trends and innovative initiatives.

Here follows our brief EU Dataviz Conference Digest.

The conference has been preceded by the Speakers Networking Dinner on 11th of November.

On the following day, some 400 participants gathered in the European Convention Center.

At Knowage booth Marco Cortella (Senior solution designer) and Noemi Maglio (Business Developer) discussed on possible integrations and collaboration to fully exploit end effectively present the huge amount of data available for public sector in EU.

At 14:40 Davide Vernassa (Senior front end developer) took the stage for the speech “Accessibility in data visualization“.

Davide highlighted that accessibility for visually impaired people is not really a trending topic in data visualization. While everyone is talking about digital transformation, color-blind and visually impaired people are out of the games. Knowage is among the first BI tools that faced the challenge of making data really available for everyone, joining the European P4All Project. He showed all accessibility features available in Knowage that are helping not only visually impaired people but also the elders and people that need to work in special visibility conditions. The recording of the speech is available her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/knowage_suite/status/1194249490666012677

Here the first news about our participation to EUDataviz: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/knowage-at-eu-dataviz/

EU DataViz 2019 is an international conference taking place on 12 November 2019 in Luxembourg, organised by the Publications Office of the European Union and supported by the ISA² programme of the European Commission. The purpose of the conference is to bring together the data visualisation community of the public sector and beyond, in order to present and explore emerging trends and innovative initiatives. Some 400 participants are expected to attend: experts and practitioners engaged in data visualisation for the public sector in Europe.

Knowage has been selected among 102 submissions from 33 countries. At Knowage booth Marco Cortella (Senior solution designer) and Noemi Maglio (Business Developer) will be available for live demoes of the brand new Knowage 7.0.

From 14:00 to 15:15, in the EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES thematic session, Davide Vernassa (Senior front end developer) will held the speech “Accessibility in datavisualization“. The thematic session will show in action all accessibility features already available in Knowage and the new upcoming ones:

• ARIA labels enhancements with angular.js
• Mouseless navigation
• Freedom to the user interface choices
• Keep user preferences anytime and everywhere
• Making geo-localized BI accessible
• APDF and MP3 conversion by integrating Robobraille
• SONIFICATION to translate a chart to sounds.

For more information, please visit: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudataviz/home

Here tour final Eu Dataviz Digest: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/eu-dataviz-digest/

On 15th and 16th of November, Bozen (South Tyrol – Italy) hosts the 19th edition of the Free Software Conference. The Free Software Conference is one of Europe’s most established annual conferences on Free Software. It promotes the use of Free Software in IT infrastructures as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness in the region. Here decision-makers and developers meet, learn and get inspired.

On the 15th of November, from 16:40 to 18:20, OW2 has been invited to organize an OW2 conference track, involving FASTEN project and Knowage. More in detail, Grazia Cazzin, Knowage Director will held the speech “KNOWAGE: the open source answer to the new needs in data analysis and exploration“, where she will present Knowage 7.0 great and challenging features that really expand analytics capabilities. Just to mention few of them: data exploration through Solr/ElasticSearch index, native geographical exploration within cockpits and new wizards to faster explore your data.

Read the SFScon Digest here: https://www.knowage-suite.com/site/free-software-conference-in-bozen-2/

From 20th to 24th October the CityCube in Berlin hosted the Smart Country Convention. The event focused on digital solutions for administrations and public services: in municipalities, cities, regions and the federal government. FIWARE community joined the event with its own Village where several companies belonging to FIWARE communities such as Knowage were showcased.

On 23rd and 24th of October, the Smart Country Convention was joined by the FIWARE GLOBAL SUMMIT. FIWARE, the industrial-driven open service platform promoted by the European Commission, Engineering and other international ICT players, launched the new edition of its Summit in Berlin to discuss and further the knowledge of the adoption of de-facto standards of open source, reusable components that implement common APIs and interfaces for portability and interoperability of applications.

Moreover, on 24th of October, Marco Cortella, Knowage solution designer, held the speech “Knowage hands on: visualizing data insights” presenting Knowage 7.0, officially released the previous day.

Engineering Group joined these events through different of its companies, presenting in particular the following projects: Waste4Think, MIDIH, Knowage, CaPe, Synchronicity and Digital Enabler. Here more details about Engineering participation.

Knowage CE 7.0 is now available for download. From the previous version 6.4 the following changes have been made:

• New QBE Engine GUI
• New document detail form
• New Registry engine
• Tagging Data SET
• Improvements on SolR Data Set
• Default role, the ADMIN can configure a default role for each user
• New Cockpit functions

                – New Discovery widget, now it is possible to use SolR data set inside the cockpit

                          – New Map widget

                – New gauge charts

                – Cross navigation creation from a crosstab, map and text widget

                – Dataset download clicking on a link in BIRT report

                – New export cockpit as CSV file

                – Summary row enablement for a specific column inside the table widget

                         – New Table widget

                – Addition of properties that are not provided by chart designer in the chart widget

                – Paddings setting in cockpit widgets

                – Upgrade of Highcharts library from 6.1.1 to 7.1.1

                – New option in chart design to specify if legend should contain also checkboxes to hide/display values

                – The stacked bar chart can now be combined with a line chart

                –  Dataset preview from a HTML/chart/table widget and Birt Report for the user

                – New option for specifying the cardinality of relationship as 1..N to 1 when defining a business model

Upgrade now to Knowage 7.0!

From 14th to 16th of October 2019, Helsinki hosted the European Big Data Value forum that gathered together more than 600 participants among industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policymakers coming from all over the world.

Helsinki is the European Commission’s new European Capital of Smart Tourism 2019 in reasons of its accessibility, sustainability, digitization cultural heritage and creativity. Besides, Helsinki aims to redefine what it means to be a truly sustainable city. Its functionality is based on the Nordic model of high-quality city services and open governance.

Knowage booth has been the crossroad where many professionals met each others, shared projects and discussed about proper data visualization and data analysis. Different Knowage 7.0 demoes were held and the new look&feel and the advanced analysis capabilities of Knowage 7.0 really impressed visitors.

Some European projects and associations supported by Knowage and Engineering Group also participated in the event: Ew-Shopp, Muketeer, Nessi and BDVA of course.

At the end of the third day, Grazia Cazzin, Knowage director, held the speech “Open source experiences in AI and DataViz for manufacturing”. This speech was indicated by many participants as one of the most interesting due to the presentation of real use cases and the level of technical details provided.

From 14th to 16th of October 2019, Helsinki hosts the main event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community.

The European Big Data Value forum reaches its third edition and will gather together more than 600 participants among industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policymakers coming from all over the world. This year theme is “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data transforming business and society“.

Knowage is proud sponsor of this event. Participants visiting Knowage booth (A3, 1rst floor) will discover the new features of Knowage 7.0 that greatly enhance data visualization and data exploration in every market sector. The booth staff will be available for brief demoes and success stories presentations to show how Knowage suite really helps professionals dealing with all kind of data.

Grazia Cazzin, Knowage director, will hold the speech “Open source experiences in AI and DataViz for manufacturing” on the 16th of October at 11.00 AM.

Tickets for the European Big Data Value Forum are still available here!

The release candidate of Knowage CE 7.0 is now available for download.

Knowage 7.0 Release candidate new features:

• Completely redesigned Look&feel for Admin

• New QbE look&feel with the analytical drivers that allow to model profiling

• On cockpits:

  • New Map widget

  • New Discovery widget to browse data through a SolR index

  • New Table widget

  • New functionalities on Chart widget

  • Improved performances on Chart widget, Selector widget and Table widget

• Ability to tag datasets

• New preview for datasets, directly from Birt reports and table and chart widgets

• Improvements on OLAP: ability to filter on more dimensions elements

Test it now and if you notice some issues or bugs, please write them down on the bug tracker!

The ultimate Knowage 7.0 version will be released in a few months.