Saturday, 22nd November 2014

Elsevier Launches Big Data Journal

By Africa S. Hands

From Elsevier:

Big Data Research was recently launched atthe IEEE International Conference on big data in Washington DC. The journal provides a channel for scholarly communication and applications in this broadening and rapidly evolving field of research. It brings together research from the many different communities working on and with big data and it will include both original research papers and review papers covering e.g. developments in big data science.

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