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Big Data Dimensional Analysis
The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data is a growing problem
within the scientific community. The growing gap between data and users calls
for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume,
velocity and variety. One of the main challenges associated with big data
variety is automatically understanding the underlying structures and patterns
of the data. Such an understanding is required as a pre-requisite to the
application of advanced analytics to the data. Further, big data sets often
contain anomalies and errors that are difficult to know a priori. Current
approaches to understanding data structure are drawn from the traditional
database ontology design. These approaches are effective, but often require too
much human involvement to be effective for the volume, velocity and variety of
data encountered by big data systems. Dimensional Data Analysis (DDA) is a
proposed technique that allows big data analysts to quickly understand the
overall structure of a big dataset, determine anomalies. DDA exploits
structures that exist in a wide class of data to quickly determine the nature
of the data and its statical anomalies. DDA leverages existing schemas that are
employed in big data databases today. This paper presents DDA, applies it to a
number of data sets, and measures its performance. The overhead of DDA is low
and can be applied to existing big data systems without greatly impacting their
computing requirements.Comment: From IEEE HPEC 201
Dimensional Analysis and Weak Turbulence
In the study of weakly turbulent wave systems possessing incomplete
self-similarity it is possible to use dimensional arguments to derive the
scaling exponents of the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectra, provided the order of the
resonant wave interactions responsible for nonlinear energy transfer is known.
Furthermore one can easily derive conditions for the breakdown of the weak
turbulence approximation. It is found that for incompletely self-similar
systems dominated by three wave interactions, the weak turbulence approximation
usually cannot break down at small scales. It follows that such systems cannot
exhibit small scale intermittency. For systems dominated by four wave
interactions, the incomplete self-similarity property implies that the scaling
of the interaction coefficient depends only on the physical dimension of the
system. These results are used to build a complete picture of the scaling
properties of the surface wave problem where both gravity and surface tension
play a role. We argue that, for large values of the energy flux, there should
be two weakly turbulent scaling regions matched together via a region of
strongly nonlinear turbulence.Comment: revtex4, 10 pages, 1 figur
Dimensional analysis and Rutherford Scattering
Dimensional analysis, and in particular the Buckingham theorem is
widely used in fluid mechanics. In this article we obtain an expression for the
impact parameter from Buckingham's theorem and we compare our result with
Rutherford's original discovery found in the early twentieth century
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