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Optimizing Data Access — Know your Hardware

The Library of Congress has a lot of information — hundreds of millions of pages of books and manuscripts. But no one has ever suggested that we store all of that information in a single, billion-page book. Instead, individual books …   read more …

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Using R — Installing Packages

This entry is part 2 of 12 in the series Using R

This entry is part 2 of 12 in the series Using ROne of the reasons to use R for analysis and visualization is the rich ecosystem of ‘packages’ contributed by others. In most cases, just as with smartphones, “There’s a …   read more …

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Data Volumes

Despite what they say, size does matter. Successful data management is all about finding the proper tools and formats for dealing with your data.  There is no one-size-fits-all solution.  And the very first question you should be asking yourself is: …   read more …

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Data producers vs. data consumers

In the marketplace, the needs of producers and consumers are often at odds:  producers want higher prices, consumers lower ones; producers want easy assembly, consumers easy dis-assembly; producers want flexibility and rapid prototyping, consumers reliability and long-term support. The same …   read more …

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