This book
constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First National Conference on Big
Data Technology and Applications, BDTA 2015, held in Harbin, China, in December
2015.

The 26
revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous
submissions. The papers address issues such as the storage technology of Big Data;
analysis of Big Data and data mining; visualization of Big Data; the parallel
computing framework under Big Data; the architecture and basic theory of Big
Data; collection and preprocessing of Big Data; innovative applications in some
areas, such as internet of things and cloud computing.