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Category: Spatial

Managing and Exploiting Massive Geolocation Data

by Zhifeng Bao on Sep 17, 2022 | Categories: Big Data, Spatial

The sheer volume, variety, and velocity of data in this modern era have enabled significant advancements in many research areas. However, the advancements in the research community thanks to Big Data do not necessarily translate to the benefit of society; of ordinary people living ordinary lives.…

Thinking Spatial

by Mohamed Mokbel on Oct 6, 2016 | Categories: Databases, Recommendations, Spatial, Systems

Self-driving cars, ride-sharing service (e.g., Uber and Lyft), and Pokemon Go are just three examples of recent disruptive applications that gained huge market share and publicity. It is expected that each self-driving car will generate 2 PB of data per year, with 10 Million of such cars by 2020.…