Robot Traffic Filtering in Real Time

Given a list of thousands of patterns and a text string, how fast can you find matches in the text?

This is the problem you need to solve if you want do basic robot-traffic filtering in real time using a list of known robots and browsers…

You Don’t Know Jack about Hashing

By: Jerry Gagelman and Jem Young

Hashing is a notoriously difficult problem, but the challenge doesn’t lie where you might think. We want to share a few insights gained from a recent excursion into this domain.

Chartbeat University: Distributions

There’s a funny saying I recently came across about statisticians: A statistician is someone who knows that 4 is sometimes equal to 7. Besides being incredibly geeky — and, let’s face it, kind of stupid — this underlies a very fundamental concept in the data…