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		boothead on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell in the Large [pdf] This `An awful lot of data mining and analysis is best done with relational algebra` Is an interesting statement. Would anyone care to elaborate?

tome on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

I think it means that a plethora operations you perform on sets, lists, maps, hash maps and indeed collections of all kinds are just specific implementations of the general "relational algebra" operations.

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