Big Data Analytics

Preface

David Loshin

Introduction

In technology, it seems, what comes around goes around. At least in my experience, it certainly seems that way. Over recent times, the concepts of “big data” and “big data analytics” have become ubiquitous—it is heard to visit a web site, open a newspaper, or read a magazine that does not refer to one or both of those phrases. Yet the technologies that are incorporated into big data—massive parallelism, huge data volumes, data distribution, high-speed networks, high-performance computing, task and thread management, and data mining and analytics—are not new.

During the first phase of my career in the late 1980s and early 1990s I was a software developer for a company building programming language compilers ...