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Global Warming Vs Clojure!

Here’s a nice article on one person’s attempt to reproduce the famed hockey stick graph from 3GB of tarballed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data using Closure. The author isn’t a climatologist, or even a scientist, so his differing output shouldn’t be a sign of manipulation. However, the post goes into detail as to how one might manipulate 3GB of compressed data (50GB of raw text) on a laptop within a reasonable amount of time using Clojure.

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