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Realizing Practical Benefits from Research
In the age of big data, the challenge is no longer how to collect or store vast quantities of data—it’s how to make sense of it and use it for practical benefit. Scientific researchers, governmental…
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Outlier Detection for Information Networks
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Think Again: Big Data
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Main-Memory Join Algorithms: Sort or Hash?
The classical wisdom is that hashing is preferred method to implement joins in main memory. But this wisdom is now many years, if not decades, old and hardware has evolved considerably in the meantime. In…
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Building Better Questionnaires with Probabilistic Modelling
With the advent of new technologies such as search engines and data-rich social networks, there has been a major increase on the availability of indirect sources of measurement for social behaviour. Still, questionnaires remain an…