Business Analytics and big data have potential in many industries. The collected massive data can help organizations dramatically reduce risks while increasing operational efficiencies. In sport, just as in any business, an increasing volume of data is being captured, collected, and analyzed. Today, sports are generating more data than ever before, and sports organizations have an unprecedented...

Big data means data sets which are too large, too unstructured and too fast changing, to use traditional data management methods. Enterprises that want to collect and process this data need new solutions for data processing and analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify the potential of big data analytics (BDA) as a source of competitive advantage of manufacturing companies in the market. T...

The increasing application of social and human-enabled systems in people’s daily life from one side and from the other side the fast growth of mobile and smart phones technologies have resulted in generating tremendous amount of data, also referred to as big data, and a need for analyzing these data, i.e., big data analytics. Recently a trend has emerged to incorporate human computing power int...

Over the last 20 years, and particularly with the advent of Big Data and analytics, the research area around Data and Information Quality (DIQ) is still a fast growing research area. There are many views and streams in DIQ research, generally aiming at improving the effectiveness of decision making in organizations. Although there are a lot of researches aimed at clarifying the role of BIG data...

This paper analyses the difficulty of big data analytics problems and the potential of swarm intelligence solving big data analytics problems. Nowadays, the big data analytics has attracted more and more attentions, which is required to manage immense amounts of data quickly. However, current researches mainly focus on the amount of data. In this paper, the other three properties of big data an...

The explosive growth of user-contributed reviews in e-Commerce and online social network sites prompts for the design of novel big data analytics frameworks to cope with such a challenge. The main contributions of our research are twofold. First, we design a novel big data analytics framework that leverages distributed computing and streaming to efficiently process big social media data streams...

Big data analytics (BDA) applications are a new category of software applications that process large amounts of data using scalable parallel processing infrastructure to obtain hidden value. Hadoop is the most mature open-source big data analytics framework, which implements the MapReduce programming model to process big data with MapReduce jobs. Big data analytics jobs are often continuous and...

Currently, the world is witnessing a mounting avalanche of data due to the increasing number of mobile network subscribers, Internet websites, and online services. This trend is continuing to develop in a quick and diverse manner in the form of big data. Big data analytics can process large amounts of raw data and extract useful, smaller-sized information, which can be used by different parties...

Big Data and analytics have gained a huge momentum in recent years. Big Data feeds into the field of Learning Analytics (LA) that may allow academic institutions to better understand the learners’ needs and proactively address them. Hence, it is important to have an understanding of Big Data and its applications. The purpose of this descriptive paper is to provide an overview of Big Data, the t...