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Brandon Smith

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Code and words enthusiast. Staff-level engineer available for contracting and consulting.

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Three Types of Data

In my work I’ve developed a mental framework related to data modeling, which has helped greatly both when coming up with a model and when making decisions down the road about how to use that model. Here I will establish three different categories of data in software: Constants, State, and Cached Values. By “data” I…