Besides the well-documented benefits of learning analytics, serious concerns and challenges are associated with the application of these data-driven systems. Most notably, empirical evidence regarding privacy issues such as for learning analytics is next to nothing.
he LUPOSDATE SPARQL system supports various approaches to manage RDF data and process SPARQL queries: Index, RDF3X, Stream, Jena and Sesame. Jena [21] and Sesame [3] refer to third-party SPARQL engines. Index is our in-memory Engine presented in [6]. Stream is our stream-based implementation (see [10]). RDF3X is a re-implementation of [14], but is further enhanced with additional optimization strategies.
As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.