- Conference Article
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- 10.1109/icdma.2015.13
Big Data Mining: Essential Technologies and Concerns
- Jan 17, 2015
- Hu Shuijing
This is an age of big data. Big data is usually defined as a huge collection of unstructured information stored in multiple data sets that due to their size and complexity cannot be processed by using traditional database management systems or data mining/analysis applications. Despite it bring tremendous benefits to society, the rise of 'Big Data mining' in the private sector poses new challenges for privacy advocates. First, this article reviews a definition of big data mining. Second, this article will set out several essential technologies related to the big data mining, with particular reference to the cloud computing, and hydoop etc. Third, this article will address risks arising from big data mining, especially privacy harm.
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