When a program attempts to search a data structure for a particular item, it uses an algorithm. An algorithm is a process, defined in code, for carrying out a specific task.

Building fast and highly performant data science applications requires an intimate knowledge of how data can be organized in a computer and how to efficiently perform operations such as sorting, ...

In this series, for the most part, I’ll focus on higher-level algorithms used to process data structures, such as the Binary Search and Matrix Multiplication algorithms.

Smart cities will rely heavily on data and the algorithms that turn that into actionable metrics. As Sean Jackson, marketing director for Actian Corporation, describes below, computers, not humans, ...