When analyzing data, systems depend on various machine learning algorithms in any given data set. The computer can either use supervised methods or unsupervised to decide which data to process. Initially, human effort is required to program the computer so that it processes exactly what is required. 

If it processes data to help in targeted marketing, it will process data sets that have closely related information. Before the actual processing, the system scales the data between different data points and makes interferences of it. Sometimes, similar data points can be located far apart, which makes it hard for the system to produce a stable outcome. 

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Bringing data closer to its unique data sets
To help understand data scaling better, it is important to understand the in memory computing definition. It is a computing technology that enables highly fast performance and the availability of unlimited data supply. In-memory computing stores data in RAM, which makes it possible for it to be accessed in real-time. Due to the availability of big data, businesses process it to help them make quick decisions.

In simpler words, RAM takes data from distant storage like hard disks and cloud and brings it closer to the user for ease of analysis. The data availed can be in terms of terabytes. A business might not need all the data to make informed decisions. Instead, it might require specific sets of data. Unfortunately, these sets might be located far apart in various storages and this can make it harder for machine learning algorithms to analyze the data. 

The most viable solution to this challenge is data scaling. A business might be looking for data with closely related attributes to analyze for a specific purpose. To get the most benefits out of the data, the system will work on it better when it’s close to each other. 

For example, in a big supermarket, goods are stored on shelves. To make it easy for customers to access the goods and decide on what to pick, closely related goods are stored closely together. Once a client enters the store, they will go straight to the section that concerns them. They might visit the canned food section, cereals section, dairy, bakery, mouth hygiene, toys section, etc. This kind of store arrangement makes it easy for customers to make decisions on what to pick and saves them time. 

Using the store example, data processing and analysis algorithms use a similar principle. Data with similar features can be mixed without any unique pattern with all kinds of data. This makes it harder for the system to process data that are sparsely located. If the data is stored in sets that are closely related, it makes it easier for machine learning to pick the data and process it. This helps give it more accurate results and this is what is called data scaling. 

Importance of scaling data
When a business-minded person is planning on starting an online business, there are some important things they look closely into to avoid confusion. They must understand the difference between thousands of likes on social media and ten conversions. The latter is greater than the former because it is what can be counted as ROI. 

Unless it’s properly programmed, machine learning algorithms interpret numbers differently. Sometimes number values can have significant differences in terms of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, millions, etc. A machine learning system will give the higher numbers a greater significance than others but this might not be the reality. The system requires training to correctly differentiate numbers and what they represent. 

Machine learning algorithms might come across two numbers, one representing a weight and the other a price. It can be 100 ounces representing a weight and another 100 representing a price. To a human being, this is an easy thing to differentiate but to a machine, they might mean the same thing. 

Another example is when a machine comes across two different features, one representing a weight and another a price. It could be 50 grams of bananas for $3. Because the weight is greater than the price, the machine algorithm will assume weight is more important than price, yet they are both equally important. The numbers that the machine deems important do play a bigger role in training the system. This is why scaling is important to help train the system to bring all features at the same level without treating some features as more important than others. When machine learning is taught this way, it will sometimes come across some forms of data that are in thousands of bytes and another segment that is in hundreds and it will treat them the same. 

Scaling data super fast using RAM
So far, RAM remains one of the best choices for storing and processing data fast. When multiple RAMs are connected, it is possible to collect large volumes of data from multiple sources and store it in several RAMs. One main feature of RAM is enhancing storage and scalability. Businesses need not worry about big data, its storage, and processing because this challenge has been eliminated by RAM. 

For fast and accurate data scaling procedures, RAM relies on parallelization to perform tasks at super speeds. This means multiple RAMs carry out smaller tasks independently yet at the same time. This kind of data scaling approach helps RAM to process data hundreds of times faster compared to any other system. RAM gives the most accurate results in big data processing. When data scaling is done from one storage, the process can be slow and inaccurate but when multiple systems become parallelized and commanded to execute a task, the time taken is a thousand times faster and the accuracy almost 100 percent better. 

When big data is involved during the scaling process, the challenge of training bigger datasets must be overcome. The data requires labeling and annotating while preserving the quality of the original data. Larger data presents thousands of scenes and that is why labeling is important. There are various tools used for training machine learning algorithms to deal with any volume of data sets and make the process as seamless as possible.