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The most popular blog posts about databases & data on Hacker News. 184 posts.
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Analytics at GitHub
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post.…
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A Closer Look at Transit
Disclaimer: I am an employee of Cognitect and I worked on the transit-js implementation. The opinions found herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect the recommendations or views of Cognitect.
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My Thoughts on the Datomic License
I have a greenfield project where the choice of database is open. I have been very interested in Datomic for a couple of years now and figured that I'd try Datomic out for the project. Then I tried to actually download and install it and decided against it... mostly because the value of Datomic does not clearly…
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PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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How to Lie with Data Visualization
Three common ways data visualizations can mislead.
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Cloud Platform at Google I/O – new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products
Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels
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Starting data analysis with R: Things I wish I'd been told
R is a very powerful open source environment for data analysis, statistics and graphing, with thousands of packages available. After my previous blog post about likert-scales and metadata in R , a few of my colleagues mentioned that they were learning R through a Coursera course on data analysis . I have been working…
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Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory
Naive Bayes classifiers, a family of classifiers that are based on the popular Bayes’ probability theorem, are known for creating simple yet well performing…
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PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released 9.4 Beta 3, the next beta release of the new version. This beta …
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The TechCrunch Bubble Index: Parsing Headlines to Quantify Startup Hype
The TechCrunch Bubble Index quantifies the startup funding environment by counting the number of headlines on TechCrunch relating to startup fundraises
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A Case for Upserts
Some thoughts on why upserts are necessary to write reliable web applications.
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LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store ...
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