Analyzing and Summarizing the Distribution of Spam Origins

Overview

Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 30 min

Questions

• How do we analyze and summarize HPC results?

• What is the distribution of the origins of spam emails in Spam Archive?

Objectives

• Analyze and summarize HPC results using simple UNIX tools.

• Compute the distribution of countries originating spam emails captured in Spam Archive.

Analyzing Text Tables with Unix Tools

Key Points

• Simple UNIX tools such as cut, sort, head, tail and uniq are helpful to analyze text results.