The International Workshop on Big Data Analytics 2016 serves as a platform sharing for multi-disciplinary researchers and scholars focusing on Big Data computing. This year workshop is a continuation from IWBDA 2015 which saw strong presence and support from local and international higher educational institutions, government agencies and industries. IWBDA 2016 is dedicated to promoting and facilitating work in the discipline and will continue to address the needs of research and development in Data Science and Big Data era to benefit the communities and nation. The world has seen Big Data and today it is about knowing what we can do with the data and how we do it. The theme for IWBDA 2016 is “Towards Nth Dimensional Data Science for Information Economy”. This workshop would bring together an international community of experts; comprises from higher educational institutions, industry key players and government agencies to engage in knowledge sharing of state-of-the-art and advancement in Data Science and Big Data computing, innovative researches and new perspectives for future development to benefit the local communities and the nation.