April 2016
Beginner to intermediate
463 pages
18h 53m
English
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Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security
The many different kinds of data include: the world’s many languages, spoken or written; static
and moving images; music as sound and music in its written form; numbers and mathematical
notations; tables; charts; graphs; networks; trees; grammars; computer programs; and more.
With many of these kinds of data, there are several different computer-based formats, such as
with static images: JPEG, TIFF, WMF, BMP, GIF, EPS, PDF, PNG, PBM, and more. And,
normally, each kind of data, and each different format, needs to be processed in its own special
way.
Some of this diversity is necessary and useful. For example, ...