Big Data Analytics – A technology that unites Data science and Analytics. It incorporates strategies for assimilation, management, analysis and interpretation of large datasets. The field lies at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, computer-science and engineering, with a diverse range of applications including healthcare, finance, business analytics, smart-cities, bioinformatics. In recent years, development of sophisticated `learning’ algorithms coupled with the availability of massive datasets and facilitated by powerful and efficient computing infrastructures, have led to pioneering improvements in Human- Machine Interactions.