Big Data Analytics

This book has a collection of articles written by Big Data experts to describe some of the cutting-edge methods and applications from their respective areas of interest, and provides the reader with adetailed overview of the field of Big Data Analytics as it is practiced today. The chapterscover technical aspects of key areasthat generate and useBig Data such as management andfinance; medicine andhealthcare; genome, cytome and microbiome;graphs and networks; Internet of Things; Big Data standards; bench-marking of systems; and others. In addition to different applications, key algorithmic approaches such as graph partitioning, clustering and finite mixture modelling ofhigh-dimensional data are also covered.The varied collection of themes in this volume introduces the reader to the richnessof the emerging field of Big Data Analytics.