This article calls for papers on the topic of “Advances in Big Data Analysis and Visualization”, which is designed to provide decision-makers with guidelines to solve the bottlenecks and technical challenges faced by the field of big data and visualization. It discusses the importance of visualization methods in helping to uncover the hidden information behind big data, and the focus of visualization research in recent years. It also invites submissions exploring innovation and advanced methodologies in big data collection and processing, data visualization analysis and related applications of big data and visualization.