Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Data Crunching
Greg Wilson, Data Crunching, The Pragmatic Programmers
A lot of people might think of the subject of Data Crunching as being beyond
boring ... the sort of thing you outsource and don't miss.
Actually, it's pretty interesting. The sorts of problems that are gone
through are almost infinitely scalable and when you look at the small end of
the scale, they are applicable to most computer user's lives. Sorting
files, searching for things and listing them, changing formats -- all
of these sorts of things and more can be tackled including things like
searching logs.
Wilson uses Python and Java to illustrate the techniques and there are
examples given throughout. In passing we learn quite a lot about things
such as databases and how computers treat numbers. In a way, the book
is a sort of primer on information storage.
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