Guide to Big Data Applications

This handbook brings together a variety of approaches to the uses of big data in multiple fields, primarily science, medicine, and business. This single resource features contributions from researchers around the world from a variety of fields, where they share their findings and experience. This book is intended to help spur further innovation in big data. The research is presented in a way that allows readers, regardless of their field of study, to learn from how applications have proven successful and how similar applications could be used in their own field. Contributions stem from researchers in fields such as physics,   biology, energy, healthcare, and   business. The contributors also discuss important topics such as fraud detection, privacy implications, legal perspectives, and ethical handling of big data.

Table of Contents

Part I General
Chapter 1 Strategic Applications Of Big Data
Chapter 2 Start With Privacy By Design In All Big Data Applications
Chapter 3 Privacy Preserving Federated Big Data Analysis
Chapter 4 Word Embedding For Understanding Natural Language:A Survey

Part II Applications in Science
Chapter 5 Big Data Solutions To Interpreting Complex Systems In The Environment
Chapter 6 High Performance Computing And Big Data
Chapter 7 Managing Uncertainty In Large-Scale Inversions For The Oil And Gas Industry With Big Data
Chapter 8 Big Data In Oil & Gas And Petrophysics
Chapter 9 Friendship Paradoxes On Quora
Chapter 10 Deduplication Practices For Multimedia Data In The Cloud
Chapter 11 Privacy-Aware Search And Computation Over Encrypted Data Stores
Chapter 12 Civil Infrastructure Serviceability Evaluation Based On Big Data

Part III Applications in Medicine
Chapter 13 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems With Chaos And Big Data:A Case Study Of Epileptic Seizure Prediction And Control
Chapter 14 Big Data To Big Knowledge For Next Generation Medicine:A Data Science Roadmap
Chapter 15 Time-Based Comorbidity In Patients Diagnosed With Tobacco Use Disorder
Chapter 16 The Impact Of Big Data On The Physician

Part IV Applications in Business
Chapter 17 The Potential Of Big Data In Banking
Chapter 18 Marketing Applications Using Big Data
Chapter 19 Does Yelp Matter? Analyzing (And Guide To Using) Ratings For A Quick Serve Restaurant Chain