Presently, scientists, engineers, educators, citizens and decision-makers have unprecedented amounts and types of data available to them that are generated from many sources, including scientific instruments, medical devices, telescopes, microscopes, satellites; digitally-authored media, text, images, audio, and emails; streaming data from weblogs, videos, financial & commercial transactions. Now we are facing challenges in the management of data and knowledge; and data-enabled discovery processes. Therefore, attention is given on the computational, mathematical, and statistical methods for...

Big Data is a hot topic and getting a lot of media and business attention. Big data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. Big data finds insights from complex, noisy, heterogeneous, longitudinal, and voluminous data. and aims to answer questions that were previously unanswered. Big data exists in a wide variety of data-intensive areas such as atmospheric science, genome research, astronomical studies, and network traffic monitor. Collecting, analyzing...

PREFACE Big Data is the expression of this gigantic mass of information that we are constantly generating at the global level. Now the buzzword "big data" refers to the new data-driven paradigm of business, science and technology, where the huge data size and scope enables better and new services, products, and platforms. It is estimated that the total accumulated data stored on computers worldwide is about 300 exabytes.The annual transmission of data is estimated at about 1.9 zettabytes i.e.1900 billion gigabytes. It is believed that Big Data is one of those mega trends that will impact...

About the Book The book is a collection of World wide educational and training resources for all levels from novices to advanced practitioners of computational biology. Resources that enhance learning and preparation geared towards a career in computational biology.With the arrival of genomics and genome sequencing projects, biology has been transformed into an incredibly data-rich science. The vast amount of information generated has made computational analysis critical and has increased demand for online web resources. There are thousands of bioinformatics and genomics resources that are...

The impact of data abundance extends well beyond business ensuring funding for social programs. Big Data has the potential to be "humanity's dashboard," an intelligent tool that can help combat poverty, crime and pollution. All these burning issues are covered in the following chapters of the book entitled, 'Applied Big Data Analytics: Evolution, Platforms & Tools, Use cases, Benefits, Impact and Paradox' 1History of Big Datahttps: //ssl.images-createspace.com/tsw/img/ajax/choosernav-right_off.gif 2Definitions & Surprising Statistics about Big Data 4Open Source Big Data Analytical Platforms...

"Big Data" is a hot topic and getting a lot of media and business attention. Everyone is talking about big data, from the challenges to yearly spending, job creation and even the tools required for big data projects. Many believe big data will help businesses make better decisions. Big Data is the expression of this gigantic mass of information that we are constantly generating at the global level due to the tremendous amount of data generated daily from fields such as business, research, and sciences. Big Data is everywhere and represents huge opportunities to those who can use it...