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A guide to data mining with Hadoop
Until recently, only a few large companies – such as IBM, Microsoft and SGI – provided architecture for data mining. Now, open source solutions have become increasingly viable and popular, among the most promising is the framework Apache Hadoop.
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Big-Data Project on 1918 Flu Reflects Key Role of Humanists
That kind of primary-source analysis, the historian's version of close reading, is a tried-and-true method of investigation. But large-scale digital databases, adroitly mined, can help historians pinpoint specific sources that are worth that kind of …
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Oil Import Dependence Not Aways Economic Disadvantage, Study Finds
Citing data from the US International Trade Administration, Saudi exports to the US in 2013 totaled about $ 51.8 billion while US exports to Saudi Arabia were valued again higher year-on-year at about $ 18.9 billion. …. supply security does not, in …
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