Principles of Big Data: Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information

Principles of Big Data helps readers avoid the common mistakes that endanger all Big Data projects. By stressing simple, fundamental concepts, this book teaches readers how to organize large volumes of complex data, and how to achieve data permanence when the content of the data is constantly changing. General methods for data verification and validation, as specifically applied to Big Data resources, are stressed throughout the book. The book demonstrates how adept analysts can find relationships among data objects held in disparate Big Data resources, when the data objects are endowed with semantic support (i.e., organized in classes of uniquely identified data objects). Readers will learn how their data can be integrated with data from other resources, and how the data extracted from Big Data resources can be used for purposes beyond those imagined by the data creators.

Learn general methods for specifying Big Data in a way that is understandable to humans and to computersAvoid the pitfalls in Big Data design and analysisUnderstand how to create and use Big Data safely and responsibly with a set of laws, regulations and ethical standards that apply to the acquisition, distribution and integration of Big Data resources

1. Big Data Moves to the Center of the Universe

2. Measurement

3. Annotation

4. Identification, De-identification, and Re-identification

5. Ontologies and Semantics: How information is endowed with meaning

6. Standards and their Versions

7. Legacy Data

8. Hypothesis Testing

9. Prediction

10. Software

11. Complexity

12. Vulnerabilities

13. Legalities

14. Social and Ethical Issues