Spatial data processing and query algorithms underpin a critical component of modern geospatial analysis, enabling efficient handling and interrogation of vast and complex datasets. Contemporary ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Data is at the heart of artificial intelligence, but it’s also emerging as one of its biggest bottlenecks. Without sufficient quantities of good, clean data to feed into models, companies simply can’t ...

If you have been around the high-tech industry long enough, you know that information technologies never die, they simply morph into something else. Almost a decade ago, the nascent data warehousing ...

I started using APL for data analysis around 1972. The powerful language, based on a 1962 book by Ken Iverson, A Programming Language, was and is notable for three things: its use of Greek letters and ...