Big Data Analytics

After reading this paper, you should clearly understand the relationship between the analytic methodologies and techniques associated with big data and how to integrate it with a new correlation taxonomy. This paper adds more distinction to the 5Vs of big data you read about previously. You will recognize the characteristics and significance of the descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive integration methods.

Abstract

Big data analytics (BDA) is an increasingly popular research area for both organisations and academia due to its usefulness in facilitating human understanding and communication. In the literature, researchers have focused on classifying big data according to data type, data security, or level of difficulty, and many research papers reveal that there is a lack of information on evidence of a real-world link of big data analytics methods and its associated techniques. Thus, many organisations are still struggling to realise the actual value of big data analytic methods and its associated techniques. Therefore, this paper gives a design research account for formulating and proposing a step ahead to understand the relation between the analytical methods and its associated techniques. Furthermore, this paper is an attempt to clarify this uncertainty and identify the difference between analytics methods and techniques by giving clear definitions for each method and its associated techniques to integrate them later in a new correlation taxonomy based on the research approaches. Thus, the primary outcome of this research is to achieve for the first time a correlation taxonomy combining analytic methods used for big data and its recommended techniques that are compatible for various sectors. This investigation was done through studying various descriptive articles of big data analytics methods and its associated techniques in different industries.


Source: Laden Husamaldin and Nagham Saeed, https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/1/17/htm
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