Big data opportunities for social behavioral and mental health research

Challenges and opportunities for analysis based research in big data

Opportunities in mental health services research.

Big data in mental health research – do the ns justify the means? Using large data-sets of electronic health records for mental health research

Advances in information technology and data storage, so-called 'big data', have the potential to dramatically change the way we do research. We are presented with the possibility of whole-population data, collected over multiple time points and including detailed demographic information usually only available in expensive and labour-intensive surveys, but at a fraction of the cost and effort. T...

Big Data Processing: Big Challenges and Opportunities

With the rapid growth of emerging applications like social network, semantic web, sensor networks and LBS (Location Based Service) applications, a variety of data to be processed continues to witness a quick increase. Effective management and processing of large-scale data poses an interesting but critical challenge. Recently, big data has attracted a lot of attention from academia, industry as...

Big Data and Health Economics: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks