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ABC	approximate Bayesian computation
AMT	Amazon Mechanical Turk
API	application programming interface

CCD	charge-coupled device
CPU	central processing unit
CQL	Contextual Query Language

DAG	directed-acyclic-graph
DBMS	database management system
DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
DSMS	data stream management system

FDR	false discovery rate
FFTW	Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
FPGA	field programmable gate array
FTRL	follow the regularized leader

GB	gigabyte
GFS	Google’s File System
GPU	graphics processing unit

HDFS	Hadoop distributed file system

I/O	input/output

LAPACK	Linear Algebra PACKage library
LP	linear programming

MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MLE	maximum likelihood estimation

NP	non-deterministic polynomial time

OCR	optical character recognition

PB	petabyte
PCA	principal components analysis

QFS	Quick File System
QP	quadratic programming

RAM	random access memory
RDS	respondent-driven sampling

S3	Simple Storage Service
SQL	Structured Query Language

TB	terabyte
TCAM	ternary content addressable memory

Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis (2013)

Chapter: Appendix A: Acronyms

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Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis (2013)

Chapter: Appendix A: Acronyms