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The Morning Paper

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What is behavior analytics?

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Fast Intersection of Sorted Lists Using SSE Instructions

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Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining

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Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Smashing Magazine

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