Big Data Analytics Processes and Platforms Facilitating Smart Cities

Information technology (IT), especially data analytics, along with a flexible and futuristic strategy is to play a very critical role in shaping up the sliding and sagging cities. This chapter discusses how big data analytics (BDA) serves immeasurably and immaculately for the faster realization and sustenance of next‐generation cities. It is designed for demystifying the hidden niceties and ingenuities of the raging BDA. Integrated big data platforms are essential in order to automate several tasks enshrined in the data capture, analysis, and knowledge discovery processes. New advancements in the form of predictive and prescriptive analytics are emerging fast with the maturity and stability of big data technologies, platforms, infrastructures, tools, and finally a cornucopia of sophisticated data mining and analysis algorithms. Thus, platforms need to be fitted with new features, functionalities, and facilities in order to provide next‐generation insights.