Eventual built a Python-native open source data processing engine, known as Daft, that is designed to work quickly across different modalities from text to audio and video, and more.

The “Map” phase processes and filters data, while the “Reduce” phase aggregates the results, making it suitable for a wide range of data processing tasks. Watch this video on YouTube.

Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by size (in characters) and type (alphanumeric, numeric ...

The lectures are complemented by many case-history examples, hands-on exercises and real-time data processing examples. Although mathematics is kept to a minimum, some understanding of 1D and 2D ...