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... The wide spectrum of Big Data related challenges is being addressed worldwide in research, development and diverse applications. This is also the case for Germany with numerous Big Data projects and initiatives. Since 2014, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding two competence centers for Big Data: the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC) and the Competence Center on Scalable Data Services and Solutions (ScaDS) Dresden/Leipzig. For this special issue we have invited contributions from these two centers as well as from other institutes with Big Data projects on current topics. After a careful reviewing by several experts and revision of the papers, we have finally accepted six contributions for this special issue on “Big Data Analytics”. ...