Applied Big Data Analytics: Business Analytics, Healthcare, Capital Market & Life Sciences (Bigdata Book 1)

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 and understanding Big Data is becoming a differentiated strategy today but it will become a fact of life tomorrow.
This book, Applied Big Data Analytics is unique among those big-data books because of its great depth and technical approach. It consists of four themes: i)Basics of big data analytics,ii)Tools, techniques and software for analytics iii) Big data analytics in health care sector iv) Big data analytics in industries, bioinformatics and life sciences. With 26 chapters spread over four sections the book demonstrates further the emerging issues and approaches in various areas of Big Data application

The aim of this book is to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and to application-driven practitioners who work in data science and related fields. It is a timely and urgently needed publication, and it provides the most up-to-date, crucial, and practical infor¬mation for big data management, technologies, and applications. Contributed by experts, it is a must-read book for statisticians, data analysts, IT students, researchers, scholars, and workers with big data in mind. Specialty of this book is that it covers important issues of big data from fundamental knowledge to application in various sectors. With an emphasis on real-life implementation of Big Data technologies, this book will provide bold vision from leading innovators across the data-driven spectrum. The latest tools and trends may help gaining fresh insights and strategic momentum to grow and respond to the analytical requirements.