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Exploring The Role Of Sentiments In Identification Of Active And Influential Bloggers, Mohammad Alghobiri, Umer Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tahir Afzal Malik Nov 2015

Exploring The Role Of Sentiments In Identification Of Active And Influential Bloggers, Mohammad Alghobiri, Umer Ishfaq, Hikmat Ullah Khan, Tahir Afzal Malik

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The social Web provides opportunities for the public to have social interactions and online discussions. A large number of online users using the social web sites create a high volume of data. This leads to the emergence of Big Data, which focuses on computational analysis of data to reveal patterns, and associations relating to human interactions. Such analyses have vast applications in various fields such as understanding human behaviors, studying culture influence, and promoting online marketing. The blogs are one of the social web channels that offer a way to discuss various topics. Finding the top bloggers has been a …


The Importance Of Big Data Analytics, Eljona Proko Nov 2015

The Importance Of Big Data Analytics, Eljona Proko

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Identified as the tendency of IT, Big Data gained global attention. Advances in data analytics are changing the way businesses compete, enabling them to make faster and better decisions based on real-time analysis. Big Data introduces a new set of challenges. Three characteristics define Big Data: volume, variety, and velocity. Big Data requires tools and methods that can be applied to analyze and extract patterns from large-scale data. Companies generate enormous volumes of polystructured data from Web, social network posts, sensors, mobile devices, emails, and many other sources. Companies need a cost-effective, massively scalable solution for capturing, storing, and analyzing …