The Data Structures and Algorithms Learning Problem - DZone Big Data

There was more about Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures by Hanan Samet being too detailed, Stack Overflow being too high-level, and more hand-wringing after that, too. The email was pleading for some book or series of blog posts that would somehow educate data science folks on more fundamental issues of data structures and algorithms. Perhaps getting them to drop some dimensions when doing k-NN problems or perhaps exploit some other data structure that didn't involve 100's of columns. I'm guessing because -- like a lot of hand-waving emails -- it didn't involve code. If there is a lack of awareness of appropriate data structures, the real place to start is The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena.