Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

This article is the second in an editorial series with a goal to provide a road map for scientific researchers wishing to capitalize on the rapid growth of big data technology for collecting, ...

In today’s digital era, it’s no secret that organizations generate and manage vast volumes of data. The term we’ve applied to the data explosion is “Big Data”, which was first coined in the 1990s by ...