He Xiaoping;Huang Long
This paper used the literatures which were retrieved from the Web of Science with the capital of Big Data as data sources, and conducted the cluster analysis and co-citation by means of the information visualization software CiteSpace Ⅲ. Based on the knowledge mapping generated by Citespace Ⅲ and the relevant literature, it performed statistical analysis and data interpretation from three perspectives, namely, research hotspots, subject content and developing trends. 6 critical node documents perfectly showed the evolution path of big data; 13 high frequency keywords and 5 burst terms indicated the research hotspots and research fronts. Conclusion: the research of big data had experienced a process which from the big data calculation model, the specific concept, the theory research of complexity science to the research on big data of social science level and applied practice level, three research hotspots: big data processing, data mining and data application, the research frontier and developing trend of big data: the study of big data itself, the research of processing technology, the research of data mining and system, model and network, data management and performance evaluation, this paper aimed at providing the reference for carrying out the present research of big data.