Given the enormous amount of data created through customers’ transactions in retail stores, it comes as no surprise that retailers are actively seeking initiatives to leverage big data and offer their customers superior services that provide mutual, previously unattainable benefits....

1. Introduction to ranking models -- 2. Data visualization and data summary -- 3. Statistical methods -- 4. Predictive modeling versus regression -- 5. The Charleston Comorbidity Index -- 6. The all patient refined diagnosis related group -- 7. Risk adjustment based upon resource utilization --...

Healthcare data management : structuration view -- Open technology innovation for healthcare services -- Interaction with cloud-hosted health data -- A framework for selecting healthcare big data analytics tools -- Interpretivist and analytics approaches for healthcare big data analytics -- A...