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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 The data explosion
What is data?
Data in the digital age
Introduction to big data
Search engine data
Healthcare data
Real-time data
Astronomical data
What use is all this data?
2 Why is big data special?
Big data versus small data
Big data defined
Volume
Variety
Velocity
Veracity
Visualization and other ‘v’s
Big data mining
Credit card fraud detection
Clustering
Classification
3 Storing big data
Moore’s Law
Storing structured data
Unstructured data storage
Hadoop Distributed File System
NoSQL databases for big data
CAP Theorem
The architecture of NoSQL databases
Cloud storage
Lossless data compression
Lossy data compression
4 Big data analytics
MapReduce
Bloom filters
PageRank
Public datasets
Big data paradigm
5 Big data and medicine
Healthcare informatics
Google Flu Trends
The West Africa Ebola outbreak
The Nepal earthquake
Big data and smart medicine
Watson in medicine
Medical big data privacy
6 Big data, big business
e-Commerce
Pay-per-click advertising
Cookies
Targeted advertising
Recommender systems
Amazon
Netflix
Data science
7 Big data security and the Snowden case
Home Depot hack
The biggest data hack yet
Cloud security
Encryption
Email security
The Snowden case
WikiLeaks
TOR and the dark Web
Deep Web
8 Big data and society
Robots and jobs
Smart vehicles
Smart homes
Smart cities
Looking forward
Byte size chart
ASCII table for lower case letters
Further reading
Index
Social Media
Online Catalogue
Advertising
Cancer
Economics
Free Speech
Globalization
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