Big Data is the leading peer-reviewed journal covering the challenges and opportunities in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating vast amounts of data. The Journal addresses questions surrounding this powerful and growing field of data science and facilitates the efforts of researchers, business managers, analysts, developers, data scientists, physicists, statisticians, infrastructure developers, academics, and policymakers to improve operations, profitability, and communications within their businesses and institutions.

Spanning a broad array of disciplines focusing on novel big data technologies, policies, and innovations, the Journal brings together the community to address current challenges and enforce effective efforts to organize, store, disseminate, protect, manipulate, and, most importantly, find the most effective strategies to make this incredible amount of information work to benefit society, industry, academia, and government.

Big Data coverage includes:
Big data industry standards
New technologies being developed specifically for big data
Data acquisition, cleaning, distribution, and best practices
Data protection, privacy, and policy 
Business interests from research to product
The changing role of business intelligence
Visualization and design principles of big data infrastructures
Physical interfaces and robotics
Social networking advantages for Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, etc.
Opportunities around big data and how companies can harness it to their advantage

Editor-in-Chief
Zoran Obradovic, PhD 
Carnell Professor of Data Analytics, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 
http://www.dabi.temple.edu/~zoran/ 
Associate Editors
 Brian d'Alessandro
Dstillery
New York, NY, and 
New York University
http://www.linkedin.com/in/briandalessandro
 
 Sanjay Chawla
Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Doha, Qatar 
https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/staff/dr-sanjay-chawla
 
Xia "Ben" Hu
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/xiahu/

  Xiaohua Tony Hu
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/thu/
Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Information Technologies Institute, CERTH
Thessaloniki, Greece
https://mklab.iti.gr/
 
Ningfang Mi
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
http://www.ece.neu.edu/~ningfang/
 
  Balaji Padmanabhan
 University of South Florida
 Tampa, Florida
 http://www.usf.edu/business/contacts/padmanabhan-balaji.aspx
Clifton Phua
Data Robot
Singapore
https://sites.google.com/site/cliftonphua/
Gregor Štiglic 
University of Maribor
Maribor, Slovenia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregor-stiglic-b6348b11/
 
Toyotaro Suzumura 
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY
https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-tsuzumura
Jiliang Tang
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
https://www.cse.msu.edu/~tangjili/

Hanghang Tong
University of Illinois 
Urbana-Champaign, IL
http://tonghanghang.org/

Managing Editor
Craig Ryan
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
cryan@liebertpub.com

Editorial Board
Francisco Martínez-Álvarez
Pablo de Olavide University
Seville, Spain 
http://eps.upo.es/martinez
danah boyd
Microsoft Research 
New York, NY
http://www.danah.org/
Narayan Desai 
Argonne National Laboratory University of Chicago 
Chicago, IL
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nldesai
 
  Vasant Dhar
  New York University
  New York, NY
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar


Timothy Edgar
Brown University
Providence, RI
http://watson.brown.edu/people/visiting/edgar
 Tom Fawcett
 Silicon Valley Data Science
 Mountain View, CA
 http://tomfawcett.info

Geoffrey Charles Fox 
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
http://www.infomall.org/
Michael Franklin
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 
https://cs.uchicago.edu/directory/michael-franklin
 
Tomer Geva
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, Israel
http://www.tomergeva.net/
 
  David J. Hand
  Imperial College, London
  United Kingdom
  http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand
Ralf Herbrich
Amazon  
Berlin, Germany
http://www.herbrich.me/

Kartik Hosanagar
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
http:/opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~kartikh/

Panos Ipeirotis   
New York University 
New York, NY
http://www.ipeirotis.com
Sorin Istrail 
Brown University
Providence, RI
http://cs.brown.edu/people/sorin/
 
Eugene Kolker
X-Lab, Fabuwood Corp, and 
Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekolker

Douglas Kondziolka
NYU Langone Medical Center New York University
New York, NY
http://neurosurgery.med.nyu.edu/douglas-kondziolka-md

Ben Lorica
O'Reilly Media
Sebastopol, CA 
http://www.bglorica.com/
 
Yossi Matias
Google
Tel-Aviv, Israel
https://sites.google.com/site/yossimatias/

T. M. Murali 
Virginia Tech 
Blacksburg, VA
http://bioinformatics.cs.vt.edu/~murali/ 
Ryan Panchadsaram
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
San Francisco, CA 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanpanchadsaram

Claudia Perlich
Dstillery
New York, NY
https://sites.google.com/site/claudiaperlich/home
 Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro 
 KDnuggets
 Brookline, MA
http://www.kdnuggets.com/gps.html

Paul Savage
HealthCare Intelligence, LLC 
Greenwich, CT
 
Galit Shmueli
National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan
www.galitshmueli.com
Rick Stevens
Argonne National Laboratory  
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/people/stevens
Edd Wilder-James  
Google 
Mountain View, CA
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edumbill