Learning analytics is a significant area of technology-enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings. It goes on to chart the emergence of learning analytics, including their origins in the 20th century, th...

Learning analytics is a significant area of technology-enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings. It goes on to chart the emergence of learning analytics, including their origins in the 20th century, th...

Big Data has become a core topic in different industries and research disciplines as well as for society as a whole. This is because the ability to generate, collect, distribute, process and analyze unprecedented amounts of diverse data has almost universal utility and helps to fundamentally change the way industries operate, how research can be done and how people live and use modern technolog...

Thanks to advancement of sensing, computation and communication technologies, data are generated and collected at unprecedented scale and speed. Virtually every aspect of many businesses is now open to data collection; operations, manufacturing, supply chain management, customer behavior, marketing, workflow procedures and so on. This broad availability of data has led to increasing interest in...

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...

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 2012 Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge posed two challenge problems for participants to solve using a combination of visual analytics software and their own analytic reasoning abilities. Challenge 1 (C1) involved visualizing the network health of the fictitious Bank of Money to provide situation awareness and identify emerging trends that could signify network issues....

The business world is undergoing a revolution driven by the use of data and analytics to guide decision-making. While many forces are at work, a major reason for the business analytics revolution is the rapid proliferation of the amount of data available to be analysed. Recent days, big data is beginning to have a major impact on air travel with more data being created both through the plane se...

The ubiquity of mobile devices has enabled Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN), such as Foursquare and Twitter, to collect large datasets of people’s locations, which tell who has been where and when. Such a collection of people’s locations over time (aka spatiotemporal data) is a rich source of information for studying various social behaviors. One particular behavior that has gained conside...