The enormous growth in the amount of data that the global economy now generates has been well documented, but the magnitude of its potential impact to drive competitive advantage has not. It is my hope that this briefing urges all stakeholders—executives who must fund analytics initiatives, IT teams that support them and data scientists, who uncover and communicate meaningful insight—to go bold...

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This paper focuses the attention on big data provenance issues, and provides a comprehensive survey on state-of-theart analysis and emerging research challenges in this scientific field. Big data provenance is actually one of the most relevant problem in big data research, as confirmed by the great deal of attention devoted to this topic by larger and larger database and data mining research co...

As Big Data and analytics defined on top of Big Data have increasingly greater impacts on society, we humans are becoming incorporated in a Big Data loop: our activities, transactions, posts, and images, are all being recorded as Big Data; and in turn the analysis of Big Data is being used to make decisions that affect us. This paper explores characteristics of this grand loop of Big Data and b...

This paper seeks to analyse the benefits of big data and more importantly the challenges it pose to the subject of privacy and data protection. First, the nature of big data will be briefly deliberated before presenting the potential of big data in the present days. Afterwards, the issue of privacy and data protection is highlighted before discussing the challenges of implementing this issue in...