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From my understanding (since I don't believe it has yet been explained in the slides), streaming refers to performing computation on a graph dynamically, rather than statically (in memory). Usually (from internet searches), streaming refers to small changes in a large graph which are unrelated, and thus provide a constant "stream" of new data for analysis. However, in this case, streaming can also refer to when we do not have enough memory to hold the entire graph (and so we must constantly pull our information about different sections of the graph from memory as a stream).