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Spatial big data have the "velocity," "volume," and "variety" of big data sources and additional geographic information about the record. Digital data sources, such as medical claims, mobile phone call data records, and geo-tagged tweets,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-30 Elizabeth C. Lee , Jason M. Asher , Sandra Goldlust , John D. Kraemer , Andrew B. Lawson , Shweta Bansal

Networks have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, with applications to natural, social, and technological systems. While networks provide a powerful abstraction for investigating relationships and interactions, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-09 Michael J. Barber , Manfred Paier , Thomas Scherngell

Big streams of Earth images from satellites or other platforms (e.g., drones and mobile phones) are becoming increasingly available at low or no cost and with enhanced spatial and temporal resolution. This thesis recognizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Vasileios Sitokonstantinou

Big data applications are currently used in many application domains, ranging from statistical applications to prediction systems and smart cities. However, the quality of these applications is far from perfect, leading to a large amount of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Pengcheng Zhang , Wennan Cao , Henry Muccini

Advances in data analytics bring with them civil rights implications. Data-driven and algorithmic decision making increasingly determine how businesses target advertisements to consumers, how police departments monitor individuals or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Solon Barocas , Elizabeth Bradley , Vasant Honavar , Foster Provost

This paper explores the potential of AI-powered tools to reshape data analysis, focusing on design considerations and challenges. We explore how the emergence of large language and multimodal models offers new opportunities to enhance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jeevana Priya Inala , Chenglong Wang , Steven Drucker , Gonzalo Ramos , Victor Dibia , Nathalie Riche , Dave Brown , Dan Marshall , Jianfeng Gao

One of the purposes of Big Data systems is to support analysis of data gathered from heterogeneous data sources. Since data warehouses have been used for several decades to achieve the same goal, they could be leveraged also to provide…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Darja Solodovnikova , Laila Niedrite

Data mining environment produces a large amount of data, that need to be analyzed, patterns have to be extracted from that to gain knowledge. In this new era with boom of data both structured and unstructured, in the field of genomics,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Chanchal Yadav , Shuliang Wang , Manoj Kumar

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of interest in Big Data in both academic and industry arenas. Big Data is about the capture, storage, analysis and visualization of huge volumes of data in both structured and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Beathe Due , Monica Kristiansen , Ricardo Colomo-Palacios , The-Hien Dang-Ha

With the rapid development of the large model domain, research related to fine-tuning has concurrently seen significant advancement, given that fine-tuning is a constituent part of the training process for large-scale models. Data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Runyuan Ma , Wei Li , Fukai Shang

Diffusion models and large language models have emerged as leading-edge generative models, revolutionizing various aspects of human life. However, the practical implementations of these models have also exposed inherent risks, bringing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mingyuan Fan , Chengyu Wang , Cen Chen , Yang Liu , Jun Huang

This chapter revises the most important aspects in how computing infrastructures should be configured and intelligently managed to fulfill the most notably security aspects required by Big Data applications. One of them is privacy. It is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Jose Moura , Carlos Serrao

Recent developments in computing, data entry and generation, and analytic tools have changed the landscape of modern demography and health research. These changes have come to be known as computational demography, big data, and precision…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zack W. Almquist , Courtney Allen , Ihsan Kahveci

COVID-19 has spread all over the world, having an enormous effect on our daily life and work. In response to the epidemic, a lot of important decisions need to be taken to save communities and economies worldwide. Data clearly plays a vital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Shuo Yu , Qing Qing , Chen Zhang , Ahsan Shehzad , Giles Oatley , Feng Xia

With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking, the availability of data has become central to policymakers. Nowadays, innovative data sources offer an opportunity to describe demographic, mobility, and migratory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Claudio Bosco , Sara Grubanov-Boskovic , Stefano Iacus , Umberto Minora , Francesco Sermi , Spyridon Spyratos

Big Data empowers the farming community with the information needed to optimize resource usage, increase productivity, and enhance the sustainability of agricultural practices. The use of Big Data in farming requires the collection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Anantaa Kotal , Lavanya Elluri , Deepti Gupta , Varun Mandalapu , Anupam Joshi

This paper presents the overview of the current trends of Big data against the computing scenario from different aspects. Some of the important aspect includes the Exascale, the computing power and the kind of applications which offer the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sabuzima Nayak , Ripon Patgiri , Thoudam Doren Singh

An intriguing open question is whether measurements made on Big Data recording human activities can yield us high-fidelity proxies of socio-economic development and well-being. Can we monitor and predict the socio-economic development of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Luca Pappalardo , Maarten Vanhoof , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Zbigniew Smoreda , Dino Pedreschi , Fosca Giannotti

This article dwells on the basic characteristic features of the Big Data technologies. It is analyzed the existing definition of the "big data" term. The article proposes and describes the elements of the generalized formal model of big…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Shakhovska Nataliya , Veres Oleh , Hirnyak Mariia

As social media platforms are increasingly adopted, the data the data people leave behind is shining new light into our understanding of phenomena, ranging from socio-economic-political events to the spread of infectious diseases. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Munmun De Choudhury