How Philippe Flipped Coins to Count Data

The Story of HyperLogLog

By Jérémie Lumbroso in streaming flajolet survey invited colloquium

December 16, 2011

Abstract

This talk traces the history of data streaming algorithms for the cardinality estimation problem from the 1980s to 2010s through algorithms designed or studied by Philippe Flajolet, and the origins of the world-famous HyperLogLog algorithm.

Date

December 16, 2011

Time

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Location

Paris, France

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