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Visualization of daily Wikipedia edits: an example of data analytics.
Visualization of daily Wikipedia edits created by IBM. At multiple terabytes in size, the text and images of Wikipedia are an example of big data. Generating hypotheses based on massive datasets can be challenging. New algorithms, created in part by Aaron Roth of the University of Pennsylvania, will help provide researchers with greater confidence when drawing conclusions from data.
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