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Geospatial Index 102

Towards Data Science

GB) recording incidents of crime that occurred in Chicago since 2001, where each record has geographic data indicating the incident’s location. To make it work properly, a good understanding of both the algorithm and the system requirements is required. Anyone with a Google Cloud Platform account can access this dataset for free.

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Booking’s Journey with Brotli

Booking.com Engineering

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm, designed and released by Google for use on the web. When we enabled brotli in a straightforward manner, it reduced bytes sent as expected. In the end, we decided that the brotli treatment was better mainly on the basis of sending 10% fewer bytes over the wire. Photo CC BY-SA 2.0

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