The junior research group Big Data Analytics (lead by Prof. Dr. Matthias Hagen) was focusing on scalable data analysis and mining techniques and their interplay with research fields like visualization, retrieval and algorithm engineering. Tools and algorithms to support analytic processes in big data will be developed in cooperation with experts from diverse application areas.

• Research project: "Provenance Analytics"
• Funding program: "InnoProfile-Transfer"

The research group members were funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the InnoProfile-Transfer program whereas the head of the group is funded by seven local donators during the first five years:

• B-S-S Business Software Solutions GmbH
• Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
• Dynardo GmbH
• incowia GmbH
• LEHMANN + PARTNER GmbH
• match2blue software development GmbH
• OnCommerce GmbH