Franck Cotton

Franck is a technology advisor at INSEE, the French National Statistical Institute, where he started as a business statistician, then became project manager for the development of a classifications management system, before taking the responsibility of IT infrastructure and IT security. He is particularly active in the fields of metadata standards, linked data and international cooperation.
The TeraLab Big Data platform will be opened in 2014. Its architecture will allow memory-intensive and/or massively parallel treatments on large data sets, including highly confidential data. A varied collection of software tools and a catalog of useful data sets will be installed on the platform. TeraLab will support the development of a wide range of research and industrial projects, and contribute to the emergence of a data science community. This paper gives a rapid overview of the TeraLab platform architecture, and presents some examples of use cases that it is designed to support.














