CHAPTER 4

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Data Organization

Organizing Chaos

A preliminary step to designing and programming an algorithm is gathering data and sorting it. When you first test a thesis or write code to analyze network traffic, only part of the information is readily available; some of the data is still unknown. You make initial estimations based on the first set of data files. As data is gathered, you discover new insights and understandings, resulting in possible changes to the processing script and data gathering application, such as adding a previously unlogged parameter and graphing it over time. Some changes may include data gathering over substantially ...

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