While importing the structured text files into the database using Java alone, we need to combine the SQL statements together manually, and to deal with various troublesome situations as well, like if the data in a table has been existed, whether we should update it or insert data into it, if some fields are included in the file, and if the fields in the file are consistent with those in the table.

 

As esProc participates in Java programming, these problems can be solved…

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There is a type of text files that they are too big to be entirely loaded into the memory, yet as the data have been sorted by a certain column and if they are imported in groups according to this column, they can be all put into the memory for computing. These text files include the call detail record of a telecom company, statistics of visitors on a website, information of members of a shopping mall, etc.

 

A great deal of complicated code, which is difficult to maintain, is…

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As Java doesn’t directly support dynamically parsing expressions in the text files, the computation can only be realized by splitting strings manually and then writing a recursive program. The whole process requires writing a great amount of code, is complicated and the code is difficult to maintain. With the assistance of esProc, we can develop program for the computation in Java without writing code manually. Let’s look at how esProc works through an example.

 

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Following problems will arise if you perform conditional filtering on text files in Java alone: 

1. The text file is not a database,so it cannot be accessed by SQL. The code needs to be modified if filtering conditions are changed. Besides, if you want a flexible conditional filtering as that in SQL, you have to self-program the dynamic expression parsing and evaluating, resulting in a great amount of programming work.

2. Stepwise loading is required for the big files that…

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Java doesn’t support set operations directly, so nested loops have to be used to realize the operations of intersection, union, complement and etc. between text files. If there are many text files, or the file to be computed is too big to be loaded into the memory, or it is required to perform set operations according to multiple fields, the code will become even more complicated. However, with the assistance of esProc, which supports set operations…

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Java doesn’t support set operations directly, so nested loops have to be used to realize the operations of intersection, union, complement and etc. between text files. If there are many text files, or the file to be computed is too big to be loaded into the memory, or it is required to perform set operations according to multiple fields, the code will become even more complicated. However, with the assistance of esProc, which supports set operations directly, Java can realize these…

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esProc can help Java deal with various computations in processing structured texts. But in the case of non-single row records, it is necessary to preprocess the data before esProc can perform computations on it. 

Let’s look at this through an example. The text file Social.txt is the access records of a website, in which every three rows corresponds to a record. The records should be rearranged first before other computations can be performed. They should be imported in the form…

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Hi,

I am looking for tools/approach/... on how to use bayesian networks in Structured Equation Modeling.
Any suggestions on articles/books to refer?

Regards,
Manjula