The increased number of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) business applications has had a major impact on organizations' business processes improvements by allowing the involvement of human interactions to these process. However, these applications generate unstructured data which create barriers...

Today, Big Data is being leveraged in many industries from criminal justice to health care to real estate with powerful outcomes. Organizations are using Big Data to predict the future in turn making them smarter and efficient. All the health care data such as discharge and transfer patient data...

Data is continuously snowballing over the years, gradually a huge growth is seen in data to store and tame to yield meticulous result. It gives rise to a concept nowadays, reckoned as big data analytics. With the summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the year 2016 round the corner, we,...

The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why...

The leading strategy for analyzing unstructured data uses two steps. First, latent variables of economic interest are estimated with an upstream information retrieval model. Second, the estimates are treated as "data" in a downstream econometric model. We establish theoretical arguments for why...