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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Schütze, 2008.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

Currently, an issue has been opened to make the “tailing” based on the primary key much faster: slow order by primary key with small limit on big data. And the results are (here I’m grouping words for each year): For “programming” subreddit: ??year???words??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????