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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 …
Using R — Installing Packages
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 …
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 …
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 …