
Chapter 6
Big Data and the SP Theory
of Intelligence
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J. Gerard Wolff
CONTENTS
Abstract .................................................................................. 144
6.1 Introduction ...................................................................... 145
6.2 Introduction to the SP Theory and SP Machine ..................................... 146
6.3 Overcoming the Problem of Variety in Big Data .................................... 147
6.3.1 Reasons for developing a universal framework for the representation and
processing of knowledge ................................................. 148
6.3.1.1 Discovery of structure in data ............................... ...