Big data is a potential research area receiving considerable attention from academia and IT
communities. In the digital world, the amounts of data generated and stored have expanded …

This paper provides a multi-disciplinary overview of the research issues and achievements
in the field of Big Data and its visualization techniques and tools. The main aim is to …

We are living in an era of big data, where the process of generating data is continuously
been taking place with each coming second. Data that is more varied and extremely …

Abstract The era of Big Data has arrived along with large volume, complex and growing data
generated by many distinct sources. Nowadays, nearly every aspect of the modern society is …

It is already true that Big Data has drawn huge attention from researchers in information
sciences, policy and decision makers in governments and enterprises. As the speed of …

Over the last decade, ensemble visualization has witnessed a significant development due
to the wide availability of ensemble data, and the increasing visualization needs from a …

With data comes uncertainty, which is a widespread and frequent phenomenon in data
science and analysis. The amount of information available to us is growing exponentially …

A central topic in scientific visualization is the transfer function (TF) for volume rendering.
The TF serves a fundamental role in translating scalar and multivariate data into color and …

Data reduction is increasingly being applied to scientific data for numerical simulations,
scientific visualizations and data analyses. It is most often used to lower I/O and storage …

The term big data is now well understood for its well-defined characteristics. More the usage
of big data is now looking promising. This chapter being an introduction draws a …