Big Data and Sustainable Applications for Healthy and Safe Coastal Cities

A huge amount of data is generated by humans on a daily basis but as businesses transform as more digital data is larger, resulting to more complex data sets, especially from new data sources. Because of the great potential it inherently offers, the above are encapsulated to the concept of big data that has become a very interesting topic, transforming the management, exploration, analysis, and leveraging of data in various domains [1, 2]. Various public and private sector industries generate, store, and analyze big data with an aim to improve the services they provide. This evolution of big data analytics has been supported by the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT). Robust big data management infrastructures provide the ground for managing and processing enormous amount of data, realizing different applications of Big Data analytics in various fields such as healthcare, maritime, banking, retail, computing, space communications etc. [3] Therefore industries, including the healthcare industry, are taking vigorous steps to convert this potential into better services and financial advantages.