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Geospatial Index 102

Towards Data Science

GB) recording incidents of crime that occurred in Chicago since 2001, where each record has geographic data indicating the incident’s location. Anyone with a Google Cloud Platform account can access this dataset for free. It consists of approximately 8 million rows of data (with a total amount of 1.52 GB to 55 MB and 7M to 260k).

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Booking’s Journey with Brotli

Booking.com Engineering

When we enabled brotli in a straightforward manner, it reduced bytes sent as expected. In the end, we decided that the brotli treatment was better mainly on the basis of sending 10% fewer bytes over the wire. Does sending fewer bytes actually drive performance? In hindsight, there was a lot of evidence that I was wrong.

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Big Data Timeline- Series of Big Data Evolution

ProjectPro

quintillion bytes of data is produced everyday i.e. 2.5 Varian and Peter Lyman at UC Berkeley in computer storage terms. 1999 was the year when the world had produced approximately 1.5 Exabyte’s of Information, according to the study titled “How Much Information?” 2015- Research estimates suggest that 2.5