Big Data: The Basics

The emergence of big data has cut across research disciplines and applications - from architecture to urban planning; art history to economics. More and more fields that traditionally worked with qualitative (non-numeric) data now have access to relevant and robust big datasets, with big research potential.

This book introduces researchers to big data sources, concepts and applications, showing best practices in use and what we can and cannot do with it. It starts by defining the key distinc...