<p> This mini-episode is a high level explanation of the basic idea behind MapReduce, which is a fundamental concept in big data. The origin of the idea comes from a Google paper titled <a style= "color: #337ab7; text-decoration: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;" href="http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html">MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters</a>. This episode makes an analogy to tabulating paper voting ballets as a means of helping to explain how and why MapReduce is an important concept.</p>

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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.