Using Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data Into Big Money

by Khosrow Hassibi, Jared Dean

An expert guide to high performance computing architectures and how they relate to analytics and data miningWith the exponential growth of data comes an ever-increasing need to process and analyze so-called Big Data. "High Performance Data Mining and Big Data Analytics" provides a comprehensive view of the recent trend toward high performance computing architectures and its natural connection to analytics and data mining. You'll find coverage of topics big data, high performance computing for analytics, massively parallel processing (MPP) databases, in-memory analytics, implementation of machine learning algorithms for big data platforms, text analytics, analytics environments, the analytics lifecycle, general applications, as well as a variety of cases.Offers coverage of business analytics, predictive modeling, and fact-based managementIncludes case studies featuring multinational companiesExplores recent trends in high performance computing architectures relating to data miningFilled with case studies, "High Performance Data Mining and Big Data Analytics" provides a thorough grounding for optimally putting data mining and big data analytics to work for your organization.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 14, 2014