Abstract
Nowadays, the concept of Big Data has acquired more popularity in the field of Education, the IT industry, Business, Healthcare and many more areas. Big data is generated every day by the communication of billions of people using mobiles, computers, GPS devices, sensors and medical devices etc. Today big data creates a huge opportunity for those who can use it efficiently. Detection of previously unknown meaningful patterns and knowledge from a few Gigabytes to Exabyte of data collected from mobile users at the network level or the app-level is termed as MBD. The new wave has provided mobile operators with a huge opportunity to collect enormous data to monitor the technical and transactional aspects of their networks. In this paper, we focus on how the flood of data gathered from heterogeneous Mobile applications such as communication-oriented applications, bank-related applications, commercial applications etc. furthermore, we discuss the impact of these gathered data on human life routine. We investigated the usage and effect of WhatsApp and Facebook by conducting the survey. This article focuses on an integrated representation of this emerging field to bridge multiple disciplines and hopefully to motivate future research.
Keywords: - Big Data, MBD, Mobile Applications, WhatsApp, Facebook
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