This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2021, which took place during December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.

The 16 full and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections named as follows: medical and health applications; machine/deep learning; IoTs, sensors, and networks; fundamentation; pattern mining and data analytics.