Engineering Agile Big Data Systems

To be effective, data-intensive systems require extensive ongoing customisation to reflect changing user requirements, organisational policies, and the structure and interpretation of the data they hold. Manual customisation is expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. In large complex systems, the value of the data can be such that exhaustive testing is necessary before any new feature can be added to the existing design. In most cases, the precise details of requirements, policies and data will change during the lifetime of the system, forcing a choice between expensive modification and continued operation with an inefficient design.Engineering Agile Big-Data Systems outlines an approach to dealing with these problems in software and data engineering, describing a methodology for aligning these processes throughout product lifecycles. It discusses tools which can be used to achieve these goals, and, in a number of case studies, shows how the tools and methodology have been used to improve a variety of academic and business systems.

Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you’re building the right models? With this hands-on book, you’ll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop. Using lightweight tools such as Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js library, your team will create an agile environment for exploring data, starting with an example application to mine your own email inboxes. You’ll learn an iterative approach that enables you to quickly change the kind of analysis you’re doing, depending on what the data is telling you. All example code in this book is available as working Heroku apps. Create analytics applications by using the agile big data development methodology Build value from your data in a series of agile sprints, using the data-value stack Gain insight by using several data structures to extract multiple features from a single dataset Visualize data with charts, and expose different aspects through interactive reports Use historical data to predict the future, and translate predictions into action Get feedback from users after each sprint to keep your project on track

This book demonstrates the use of a wide range of strategic engineering concepts, theories and applied case studies to improve the safety, security and sustainability of complex and large-scale engineering and computer systems. It first details the concepts of system design, life cycle, impact assessment and security to show how these ideas can be brought to bear on the modeling, analysis and design of information systems with a focused view on cloud-computing systems and big data analytics. This informative book is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and industry-based practitioners working in engineering, information and business systems as well as strategy.

Agile is a set of values, principles, techniques, and frameworks for the adaptable, incremental, and efficient delivery of work. Big Data is a rapidly growing field that encompasses crucial aspects of data such as its volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. This book outlines a strategic approach to Big Data that will render a business Agile. It discusses the important competencies required to streamline and focus on the analytics and presents a roadmap for implementing such analytics in business.

Over the last decade, Agile methods have changed the software development process in an unparalleled way. As opposed to traditional, plan-driven models of software development (e.g. waterfall model), where processes are organized in a series of sequentially ordered stages, Agile software development (ASD) entails collaborative development with swift and incremental iterations. As a result, adaptability to fre- quently changing requirements and a strong emphasis on delivering value to customers represent the crux of ASD and have driven its wide acceptance among software practitioners in the last years. Furthermore, this paradigm shift from plan-driven software development processes to ASD accorded with social and technological advances. Keywords: Big Data analytics in Agile software development big data facebook big data baseball big data analysis for green computing concepts and applications big data big climb big data systems big data healthcare big data aws big data science big data mba big data a big data dragon tank big data a revolution that will transform big data a revolution that will transform how we live work and think big data algorithms big data analysis big data analytics big data and health analytics big data and social science big data architect big data architecture big data at work big data band big data big analytics big data big climb big data big design big data book big data dangerous big data demystified big data design big data does size matter big data driven business big data engineer big data engineering big data español big data finance big data for beginners big data for social good big data frameworks big data fundamentals big data fundamentals concepts, drivers & techniques big data genomics big data glossary big data health analytics big data in education big data in finance big data in healthcare big data in practice big data integration big data interview big data lake big data management big data manning big data marketing big data marz big data mba big data mba driving business strategies with data science big data modeling big data on campus big data para ceos y directores de marketing big data platform big data policing big data principles and best practices big data profits success analytics big data project big data project management big data python big data questions and answers big data race big data real estate big data revolution big data science big data science in finance big data security big data small wars big data spanish big data spark big data system big data technologies for business big data textbook big data uncharted big data understanding how data powers big business big data using hadoop big data using hadoop and hive big data visualization big data with java big data with spark

This book constitutes the refereed thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2017, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2017. The 24 revised full papers were selected from 34 submissions. The workshops complement the main conference, and explore new trends on core topics of Web engineering. The workshop committee accepted five workshops of which the following four contributed papers to this volume: - 2nd International Workshop on Liquid Multi-Device Software and 1st International Workshop on Engineering the Web of Things - International Workshop on The Practice Of The Open Web (practi-O-web 2017) - 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Informal Text (NLPIT 2017) - 3rd International Workshop on Mining the Social Web (SoWeMine 2017).

This book presents research in big data analytics (BDA) for business of all sizes. The authors analyze problems presented in the application of BDA in some businesses through the study of development methodologies based on the three approaches – 1) plan-driven, 2) agile and 3) hybrid lightweight. The authors first describe BDA systems and how they emerged with the convergence of Statistics, Computer Science, and Business Intelligent Analytics with the practical aim to provide concepts, models, methods and tools required for exploiting the wide variety, volume, and velocity of available business internal and external data - i.e. Big Data – and provide decision-making value to decision-makers. The book presents high-quality conceptual and empirical research-oriented chapters on plan-driven, agile, and hybrid lightweight development methodologies and relevant supporting topics for BDA systems suitable to be used for large-, medium-, and small-sized business organizations.