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Nawsher Khan, Ibrar Yaqoob, Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem, Zakira Inayat + 4 more
'Zakira Inayat' 'Waleed Kamaleldin Mahmoud Ali' 'Muhammad Alam' 'Muhammad Shiraz' 'Abdullah Gani'] Big Data has gained much attention from the academia and the IT industry. In the digital and computing world, information is generated and collected at a rate that rapidly exceeds the boundary range. Currently, over 2…
Mark Baillie, Saskia le Cessie, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Lara Lusa + 1 more
Data is the new oil , and analyzing data has been described as the number 1 profession of the 21st century . But an appropriate analysis of data is also one of the most challenging tasks-a lot can go wrong at any step . Researchers should always remember, but often forget, that data are numbers with context. When…
Shohel Sayeed, Abu Fuad Ahmad, Tan Choo Peng
The Internet of Things (IoT) is leading the physical and digital world of technology to converge. Real-time and massive scale connections produce a large amount of versatile data, where Big Data comes into the picture. Big Data refers to large, diverse sets of information with dimensions that go beyond the capabilities…
Kornelia Batko, Andrzej Ślęzak
The introduction of Big Data Analytics (BDA) in healthcare will allow to use new technologies both in treatment of patients and health management. The paper aims at analyzing the possibilities of using Big Data Analytics in healthcare. The research is based on a critical analysis of the literature, as well as the…
Bob Mash, Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo
This article is part of a series on Primary Care Research Methods. The article describes types of continuous and categorical data, how to capture data in a spreadsheet, how to use descriptive and inferential statistics and, finally, gives advice on how to present the results in text, figures and tables. The article…
Muhammad Usman Tariq, Muhammad Babar, Marc Poulin, Akmal Saeed Khattak + 2 more
'Akmal Saeed Khattak' 'Mohammad Dahman Alshehri' 'Sarah Kaleem'] Intelligent big data analysis is an evolving pattern in the age of big data science and artificial intelligence (AI). Analysis of organized data has been very successful, but analyzing human behavior using social media data becomes challenging. The social…
Mike W.-L. Cheung, Suzanne Jak
Big data is a field that has traditionally been dominated by disciplines such as computer science and business, where mainly data-driven analyses have been performed. Psychology, a discipline in which a strong emphasis is placed on behavioral theories and empirical research, has the potential to contribute greatly to…
Blend Berisha, Endrit Mëziu, Isak Shabani
Big Data and Cloud Computing as two mainstream technologies, are at the center of concern in the IT field. Every day a huge amount of data is produced from different sources. This data is so big in size that traditional processing tools are unable to deal with them. Besides being big, this data moves fast and has a lot…
Ben Goldacre, Martin Bardsley, Tim Benson, Kate Cheema + 21 more
Data have been widely hailed as ‘the raw material of the 21st century’1 and ‘better use of data’ is a central feature of the NHS Long Term Plan.2 Yet, data alone does not produce insights. To capitalise on opportunities to improve health and care, we need the data and outstanding data analysis. However, policymakers…
Gunther Eysenbach, Sanmitra Bhattacharya, Chun Hung Li, Carolyn McGregor + 5 more
'Carolyn McGregor' 'Anandhi Ramachandran' 'Robert Eugene Hoyt' 'Dallas Snider' 'Carla Thompson' 'Sarita Mantravadi'] Background We live in an era of explosive data generation that will continue to grow and involve all industries. One of the results of this explosion is the need for newer and more efficient data…
Gunther Eysenbach, Luca Toldo, Junfeng Gao, Weiqi Wang + 1 more
Background In the past few decades, medically related data collection saw a huge increase, referred to as big data. These huge datasets bring challenges in storage, processing, and analysis. In clinical medicine, big data is expected to play an important role in identifying causality of patient symptoms, in predicting…
Alisa Bokulich, Wendy Parker
We critically engage two traditional views of scientific data and outline a novel philosophical view that we call the pragmatic-representational (PR) view of data. On the PR view, data are representations that are the product of a process of inquiry, and they should be evaluated in terms of their adequacy or fitness…
Dominik Balazka, Dario Rodighiero
Starting from an analysis of frequently employed definitions of big data, it will be argued that, to overcome the intrinsic weaknesses of big data, it is more appropriate to define the object in relational terms. The excessive emphasis on volume and technological aspects of big data, derived from their current…
Jason David Wark, Ori Pomerantz, Kristine Coleman
Simple Summary Monitoring animal behavior over time is important for zoos and aquariums seeking to continually evaluate animal welfare. Although new digital tools are making behavior monitoring more accessible, analyzing behavior data in a timely manner to draw meaningful insights can be challenging. Business…