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Counting triangles smarter (or how to beat Big Data vendors at their own game)

A few months ago, I discovered Vertica’s “Counting Triangles”-article through Prismatic. The blog post describes a number of benchmarks on counting triangles in large networks. A triangle is detected whenever a vertex has two adjacent vertices that are also adjacent to each other. Imagine your social network; if two of your friends are also friends

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Similr: blazingly fast chemical similarity searches

Today, Datablend announces Similr to be available for beta sign-up. Similr allows scientist (both from academics and enterprise) to quickly search for compounds that exhibit a particular chemical structure. It employs a wide range of fingerprinting algorithms, which combined, allow to identify matching compounds in millisecond time. Similr’s functionalities are available through a flexible and

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