“Big Data” technologies and personal information

LifeLogging: Personal Big Data

We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper, and advancements in sensing technology allows for the efficient sensing of personal activities, locations and the environment. This is best seen in the growing popularity of the quantified self movement, in which life activit...

Big Data: Tools and Technologies in Big Data

Big data can be defined as data which requires latest technologies other than the traditional tools and techniques to handle it, due to its unstructured nature. Huge volume, various varieties and high velocity create lots of other challenges and issues regarding its management and processing. Big data is growing at an exponential rate so it becomes important to develop new technologies to deal ...

Big data privacy: The datafication of personal information

Big Data Technologies circa 2012

The growth of the World Wide Web has led to an astronomical amount of data being generated. More recently, the amount of user-generated content has seen tremendous expansion thanks to social media like Facebook and Twitter. Enterprises, researchers, and even governments consider this data to be an invaluable source of insight into people’s behavior, creating a race to analyze as much data as po...

Big Data: Survey, Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Big Data has gained much attention from the academia and the IT industry. In the digital and computing world, information is generated and collected at a rate that rapidly exceeds the boundary range. Currently, over 2 billion people worldwide are connected to the Internet, and over 5 billion individuals own mobile phones. By 2020, 50 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet....