Key Features: - Includes many code examples in R and SQL, with R/SQL scripts freely provided online. - Extensive use of real datasets from empirical economic research and business analytics, with data files freely provided online. - Leads students and practitioners to think critically about where the bottlenecks are in practical data analysis tasks with large data sets, and how to address them. The book is a valuable resource for data science practitioners, graduate students and researchers who aim to gain insights from big data in the context of research questions in business, economics, and the social sciences.