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...

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...