This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications, Innovate-Data 2019, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in August 2019.

The 15 revised full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on advances in big data systems; machine learning and data analytics; big data innovation and applications; security and risk analysis.