Research and Analysis Pipelines

The Problem

Analyst needs to read 50 earnings reports to spot trends.

The Graph

1. Map: Spawn 50 workers. Each reads 1 PDF.
2. Extract: Each worker extracts "Revenue Guidance".
3. Reduce: Summarizer compiles all guidance into a spreadsheet.
4. Report: Writer generates a trend analysis.

Result

Work that took 2 weeks now takes 10 minutes.