Spectral clustering is quite complex, but it can reveal patterns in data that aren't revealed by other clustering techniques. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items so that similar ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data. A self-organizing map (SOM) is a data structure that can be used ...

As application architectures become increasingly dependent on distributed communication and processing, it is extremely important to understand where the bulk of the database processing occurs: on the ...

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An already-working open source database project could let other web companies join Google for bragging rights as the owners of a thousand-node database cluster. Moving the project from in-house to ...

Sybase Inc. is preparing to unveil an update to Adaptive Server Enterprise, its flagship relational database, that will use virtualization technology to let users run a single instance of ASE across a ...