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Chapter 22
Big Data Analytics and
Inference Control
22.1 Overview
As stated in Appendix A, due to the explosion of Web-based services, unstructured
data management, and social media and mobile computing, the amount of data to be
handled has increased from terabytes to petabytes and zettabytes in just two decades.
Such vast amounts of complex data have come to be known as big data. Not only does
big data have to be managed efficiently, such data also have to be analyzed to extract
useful nuggets to enhance businesses as well as improve society. is has come to be
known as big data analytics. However, as data grow exponentially and the analy