Big Data : a Beginner's Introduction.

Author/creator Sarangi, Saswat
Other author Sharma, Pankaj.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Description1 online resource (141 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central

Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; The story behind this book; Notes; Acknowledgments; Notes; Introduction; One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind; Information sourcing has changed fundamentally; The 21st century: rise of Big Data, computing power and the cloud; More information = more data, more data = more analytics; Why Big Data is Big Data; How accurate are the inferences drawn from Big Data?; The path from unstructured data to actionable insights; Big Data Applications: they are everywhere
Contents Big Data = competitive advantage the challenges; The privacy debate; No turning back; Notes; Chapter 1: Big Data: what, why and how; Amazon: In the business of selling or in the business of data?; What is Big Data?; The history; The terminology; Big Data: getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster; In the next chapter; Notes; Chapter 2: Big Data and AI; Artificial intelligence: how is it different?; Big Data is at the core of AI; AI is unlike other technology; AI -- interaction of many academic disciplines; AI is for decision-making, other technology is about better execution
Contents AI handling unstructured challenges we may not have all the answers but AI is different and disruptive; The shift from real to virtual and the impact on psychological health; In the next chapter; Notes; Chapter 3: What Big Data is not; Facebook: connecting the world or in the business of data?; Deductive vs. inductive reasoning; Big Data can only offer inductive reasoning; Big Data: prone to abuse; In the next chapter; Notes; Chapter 4: How do data analytics work?; Data analytics and German win in 2014 FIFA World Cup; How data analytics works
Contents Analytics: the need for business and technology teams to work together data analytics -- it can't replace the domain experts; Big Data analysis of future thinking and decision-making; The role of decision makers in interpreting data; In the next chapter; Notes; Chapter 5: Big Data: the applications; Big Data Analytics and "the human genome"; Big Data is revolutionizing the retail industry; Knowing the customer; Big Data is the key to affordable, quality healthcare; Big Data can help governments and authorities; Are central banks relying on more and better data to make policies?
Contents Big Data can take us closer to the goal of povalleviation disasterssters can't be prevented but Big Data can help to mitigating the impact; Big Data and how the education sector will undergo changes; Politics, campaigns and elections; Agriculture: Big Data causing a silent revolution in credit availability; Finance: can Big Data help in generating above-average returns?; Why the advertising industry is now embracing Big Data; In the next chapter; Notes; Chapter 6: Why Big Data matters; Big Data as a competitive advantage: the case of McDonald's
Contents The use of Big Data analytics and innovation -- is there a link?
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Sarangi, Saswat. Big Data : A Beginner's Introduction. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, ©2019 9781138598577
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781000650792
ISBN1000650790

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