The 21st century is the era of big data. All aspects of society, from facial expressions to national defense and military, will generate massive amounts of data. Facial expression recognition technology, as a new technology spawned in the era of big data, has broad applications The prospects are widely used in intelligent transportation, assisted medical care, distance education, interactive games and public safety. In recent years, it has attracted more scholars’ attention and has become another research hotspot in the field of computer vision and machine learning. The purpose of this article is to study the facial micro-expression recognition algorithm based on big data. This time, big data technology is used to analyze the algorithm. Big data can better solve the small changes in face recognition and complex data processing. This paper firstly summarizes the basic theory of big data, derives the core technology of big data, and analyzes its shortcomings and shortcomings based on the current research status of facial micro-expression in my country, and finally discusses the big data based on big data. Research on facial micro-expression recognition algorithm under the following. This article takes the research situation of the face micro-expression recognition by related companies as the survey object, and analyzes it through the literature data method, questionnaire survey method, mathematical statistics method and other research methods. Experimental results show that the lower the dimensionality reduction, the less classification time is used. When the dimensionality reduction is 45 dimensions, the recognition rate of facial expressions is the highest.