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Optimal "Big Data" Aggregation Systems - From Theory To Practical Application, William J. Culhane Iv
Optimal "Big Data" Aggregation Systems - From Theory To Practical Application, William J. Culhane Iv
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The integration of computers into many facets of our lives has made the collection and storage of staggering amounts of data feasible. However, the data on its own is not so useful to us as the analysis and manipulation which allows manageable descriptive information to be extracted. New tools to extract this information from ever growing repositories of data are required.
Some of these analyses can take the form of a two phase problem which is easily distributed to take advantage of available computing power. The first phase involves computing some descriptive partial result from some subset of the original …