Big data projects: just jump right in!

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 260-288

  Mousannif, Hajar ^a   Sabah, Hasna ^b   Douiji, Yasmina ^b   Oulad Sayad, Younes ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^b CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Advanced analytics; Big data; Big data project; Big data technologies; Business intelligence; Methodologies and tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977536129     PISSN: 17427371     EISSN: 1742738X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJPCC-04-2016-0023     Document Type: Article

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