Splunk has a relatively simple search language that can be used by both beginners and experts to directly query big data sets.

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Graph Search (which I suspect was named by the engineers and nobody thought to change it) allows clear language search terms to be made to find groups of people.

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Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.

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The simplest approach may be through the technology offered by Splunk, which has its own search language that allows you to search through big data, identify useful query types, and express your developing understanding of the structure of the data as you search.

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The computer science introduction course teaches basic skills by having students build a Google-like search engine, using the programming language Python.

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He told us that two of the biggest hurdles faced by his team were dealing with the massive amount of data and incorporating natural language search.

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