If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases , and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics.

Relational event models (REMs) have emerged as a pivotal statistical framework for the analysis of time‐stamped interactions within social networks. By treating interactions as discrete events ...

All access to data starts at the top of the hierarchy and moves downward; for example, from customer to orders, vendor to purchases, etc. Contrast with relational database and network database.

The focus of this paper is an approach to the modeling of longitudinal social network or relational data. Such data arise from measurements on pairs of objects or actors made at regular temporal ...