Jose Maria Cavanillas, Edward Curry, and Wolfgang Wahlster (editors): new horizons for a data-driven economy: a roadmap for usage and exploitation of big data in Europe

The Big Data Value Chain: Definitions, Concepts, and Theoretical Approaches

The emergence of a new wave of data from sources, such as the Internet of Things, Sensor Networks, Open Data on the Web, data from mobile applications, social network data, together with the natural growth of datasets inside organisations (Manyika et al. 2011), creates a demand for new data management strategies which can cope with these new scales of data environments. Big data is an emerging ...

Big Data in the Public Sector

Big data impact on society: a research roadmap for Europe

With its rapid growth and increasing adoption, big data is producing a growing impact in society. Its usage is opening both opportunities such as new business models and economic gains and risks such as privacy violations and discrimination. Europe is in need of a comprehensive strategy to optimise the use of data for a societal benefit and increase the innovation and competitiveness of its pro...

Primary Congenital Lymphedema in the Upper Limbs of Children: Case Series

The aim of the present study was to report a case series involving the treatment of primary congenital lymphedema using the Godoy method. Eight children (seven girls and one boy) with primary congenital lymphedema of the upper limbs treated at the Godoy Clinic. A retrospective clinical trial was conducted to evaluate treatment for primary congenital l...

P-V-L Deep: A Big Data Analytics Solution for Now-casting in Monetary Policy

The development of new technologies has confronted the entire domain of science and industry with issues of big data's scalability as well as its integration with the purpose of forecasting analytics in its life cycle. In predictive analytics, the forecast of near-future and recent past - or in other words, the now-casting - is the continuous study of real-time events and constantly updated whe...