Acknowledgements vii Foreword ix Key Concepts xi Introduction xix Chapter 1. The Big Data Revolution 1 1.1. Understanding the Big Data universe 2 1.2. What changes have occurred in data analysis? 8 1.3. From Big Data to Smart Data: making data warehouses intelligent 12 1.4. High-quality information extraction and the emergence of a new profession: data scientists 16 1.5. Conclusion 21 Chapter 2. Open Data: A New Challenge 23 2.1. Why Open Data? 23 2.2. A universe of open and reusable data 28 2.3. Open Data and the Big Data universe 33 2.4. Data development and reuse 38 2.5. Conclusion 41 Chapter 3. Data Development Mechanisms 43 3.1. How do we develop data? 44 3.2. Data governance: a key factor for data valorization 54 3.3. CI: protection and valuation of digital assets 60 3.4. Techniques of data analysis: data mining/text mining 65 3.5. Conclusion 72 Chapter 4. Creating Value from Data Processing 73 4.1. Transforming the mass of data into innovation opportunities 74 4.2. Creation of value and analysis of open databases 82 4.3. Value creation of business assets in web data 87 4.4. Transformation of data into information or DataViz 94 4.5. Conclusion 100 Conclusion 101 Bibliography 109 Index 121