Design of Education Information Platform on Education Big Data Visualization

Applications of Big Data in Education

Big Data and analytics have gained a huge momentum in recent years. Big Data feeds into the field of Learning Analytics (LA) that may allow academic institutions to better understand the learners’ needs and proactively address them. Hence, it is important to have an understanding of Big Data and its applications. The purpose of this descriptive paper is to provide an overview of Big Data, the t...

Big Data for Education in Students Perspective

Big Data Analytics is the new technology for extracting hidden information from the large datasets or data deluge, due to its volume, variety, and velocity. This paper presents the overview of big data, its available technologies and tools and discusses the open issues of big data. Big data plays a significant role in education sector. Everything has become digitalized in the educational instit...

Health Professions Education: Make Big Data Meaningful.

A Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach for Big Data Analytics Platform Selection

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....

Opinion: Big data biomedicine offers big higher education opportunities.

I like to tell my students a story about a time back in the “olden days” of the early 1990s when I was a newly minted postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our laboratory conducted brain imaging studies using positron emission tomographic imaging and would routinely obtain 6–12 functional image volumes per subject in our experiments. The director of our neuroimaging la...