Frontiers in massive data analysis / Committee on the Analysis of Massive Data ; Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics ; Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies.

Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. This title examines the frontier of analyzing massive amounts of data, whether in a static database or streaming through a system.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Massive Data in Science, Technology, Commerce, National Defense, Telecommunications, and Other Endeavors -- Scaling the Infrastructure for Data Management -- Temporal Data and Real-Time Algorithms -- Large-Scale Data Representations -- Resources, Trade-offs, and Limitations -- Building Models from Massive Data -- Sampling and Massive Data -- Human Interaction with Data -- The Seven Computational Giants of Massive Data Analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Acronyms -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.