Databases & Data

I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020)

medium.com/@kevinbasset2022104 points37 comments details

Spoiler alert: I found some intriguing patterns…

Command-line data analytics

Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2020 and 2021?

Robert Haas2022101 points23 comments details

I have done a few previous blog posts on who has contributed to PostgreSQL , but I did not do one last year. A couple people mentioned to me...

Dabbling with Dagster vs. Airflow

davidj.substack2022100 points52 comments details

Dissecting the Octopus

The many flavors of hashing

Ciprian Dorin Craciun2022100 points13 comments details

About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.