Foreword

Big data analytics started receiving increasing attention a few years ago. It all began by exploring how to deal with the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of the data. Today, developing effective and efficient approaches, algorithms, and frameworks are used as they are essential to deal with such data.

Earlier, data were limited, and experiments were also performed for limited scopes. With the advent of big data, internet technologies, massive information, and predictive analytics problems have exploded in complexity and behavior. There are increasing challenges in the area of data storage, management, and computations. There is a need to combine various researches related to big data technologies, statistics, and predictive analytics into a single volume. The proposed eBook addresses a comprehensive range of advanced topics in big data technologies with statistical modeling towards predictive analytics. This book will be of significant benefit to the community as a useful guide of the latest research in this emerging field, i.e., predictive analytics. This ebook will help the studies in this field finding relevant information in one place.