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Chapter 10
Visualizing the
Data Plane
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of Accelerated Discovery is that we can gain
insight by concentrating everything we know about an entity into a
single comprehensive representation. is representation, in its simplest
form, is a vector of feature values, where the features represent all the
dierent kinds of things we can know about an entity (its properties, its
environment, what it is related to, what it interacts with, etc.). e dimen-
sionality of such a feature vector naturally tends to be extremely high. It
is not unusual to see feature vectors with tens of thousands, hundreds of
thousands, or even millions ...