Intelligent data analysis techniques offer powerful solutions to collecting and analyzing vast quantities of environmental and economic data, which lead to better decision making for sustainable development. This volume is the first to discuss the treatment of intelligent data analysis...

Based on insights from a cross-disciplinary community of policy-makers and experts from industry, academia and civil society convened by the World Economic Forum, this report hopes to help clear some of the fog that is currently obscuring the vision of how Big Data might be used to address the...