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1. *General Background and Overview*

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  * [Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining](http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/probabilistic-structures-web-analytics-data-mining/) : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.

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  * [Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.106.9846)

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  * [Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms](https://speakerdeck.com/timonk/philippe-flajolets-contribution-to-streaming-algorithms) : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet

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  * [Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams](http://www.vldb.org/conf/2002/S10P03.pdf) by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.