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Many organizations collect large amounts of data: businesses about their customers, governments about their citizens and visitors, scientists about physical systems, and economists about financial systems. Collecting such data is the easy part; extracting useful knowledge from it is often much harder.
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Skillicorn, D.B. (2012). Introduction. In: Understanding High-Dimensional Spaces. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33398-9_1
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