Saumyadipta Pyne & B.L.S. Prakasa Rao 
Big Data Analytics [PDF ebook] 
Methods and Applications

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Promises and Challenges of Big Data Analytics.- Chapter 2. Massive Data Analysis: Tasks, Tools, Applications and Challenges.- Chapter 3. Statistical Challenges with Big Data in Management Science.- Chapter 4. Application of Mixture Models to Large Datasets.- Chapter 5. An Efficient Partition-Repetition Approach in Clustering of Big Data.- Chapter 6. Multithreaded Graph Algorithms for Large-scale Analytics.- Chapter 7. On-line Graph Partitioning with an Affine Message Combining Cost Function.- Chapter 8. Big Data Analytics Platforms for Real-time Applications in Io T.- Chapter 9. Complex Event Processing in Big Data Systems.- Chapter 10. Unwanted Traffic Identification in Large-scale University Networks: A Case Study.- Chapter 11. Application-Level Benchmarking of Big Data Systems.- Chapter 12. Managing Large Scale Standardized Electronic Healthcare Records.- Chapter 13. Microbiome Data Mining for Microbial Interactions and Relationships.- Chapter 14. A Nonlinear Technique for Analysis of Big Data in Neuroscience.- Chapter 15. Big Data and Cancer Research.

SAUMYADIPTA PYNE is professor at the Public Health Foundation of India, at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, India. Formerly, he was P.C. Mahalanobis Chair Professor and head of Bioinformatics at the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. He is also Ramalingaswami Fellow of Department of Biotechnology, the Government of India, and the founder chairman of the Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group on Big Data Analytics. Professor Pyne has promoted research and training in Big Data Analytics, globally, including as the workshop co-chair of IEEE Big Data in 2014 and 2015 held in the U.S.A. His research interests include Big Data problems in life sciences and health informatics, computational statistics and high-dimensional data modeling.
B.L.S. PRAKASA RAO is the Ramanujan Chair Professor at the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, India. Formerly, he was director at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and the Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the University of Hyderabad. He is a Bhatnagar awardee from the Government of India,  Fellow of all the three science academies in India, fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A., and a recipient of the national award in statistics in memory of P.V. Sukhatme from the Government of India. He has also received the Outstanding Alumni award from Michigan State University. With over 240 papers published in several national and international journals of repute, Professor Prakasa Rao is the author or editor of 13 books, and member of the editorial boards of several national and international journals. He was, most recently, the editor-in-chief for journals—Sankhya A and Sankhya B. His research interests include asymptotic theory of statistical inference, limit theorems in probability theory and inference for stochastic processes.
S.B. RAO was formerly director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and also director of the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad. His research interests include theory and algorithms in graph theory, networks and discrete mathematics with applications in social, biological, natural and computer sciences. Professor S.B. Rao has 45 years of teaching and research experience in various academic institutes in India and abroad. He has published about 90 research papers in several national and international journals of repute, and was editor of 11 books and proceedings. He wrote a paper jointly with the legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos, thus making his “Erdos Number” 1.