Abstract: With the arrival of information and network era, the development of big data has been paid more and more attention. This article selected 19698 big data related literature(2012-2018) from the Web of Science core database, and did an visualized analysis based on information visualization software CiteSpace. This paper analyzed the big data literature from the aspects of countrys, research institutions, references, key words and brust terms. It clarified the research status and important literature in the field of big data, and revealed the research hotspots and frontiers. Finally, this paper gave some suggestions on the aspects of institutions cooperation, research direction selection, key generic technologies and big data application.

Key words: big data, CiteSpace, visualization, subject frontier, technology trend