Principles of Big Data

Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-12-404576-7
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

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.

Zielgruppe

<p>data managers, data analysts, statisticians </p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berman, Jules J.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Berman, Jules J.
Jules Berman holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT (in Mathematics and in Earth and Planetary Sciences), a PhD from Temple University, and an MD from the University of Miami. He was a graduate researcher at the Fels Cancer Research Institute (Temple University) and at the American Health Foundation in Valhalla, New York. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the US National Institutes of Health, and his residency at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Berman served as Chief of anatomic pathology, surgical pathology, and cytopathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he held joint appointments at the University of Maryland Medical Center and at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In 1998, he transferred to the US National Institutes of Health as a Medical Officer and as the Program Director for Pathology Informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Berman is a past President of the Association for Pathology Informatics and is the 2011 recipient of the Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a listed author of more than 200 scientific publications and has written more than a dozen books in his three areas of expertise: informatics, computer programming, and pathology. Dr. Berman is currently a freelance writer.