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Understanding Neo4j Graph Databases: Purpose and Functionality

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction What kind of database did you use to build your most recent application? According to Scalegrid’s 2019 database trends report, SQL is the most popular database form, with more than 60% of its use. It is followed by NoSQL databases with more than 39% use.

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Versioned Finite-State Machines with PostgreSQL (2019)

Hacker News

Inspired by Felix Geisendorfer blog post I implemented a database FSM (Finite-State Machine) with Postgresql. I brought some improvements to Felix’s implementation but before reading the following I recommend you to read carefully the original post.

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Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (2019)

Hacker News

Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate.

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IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down [video] (2019)

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Automate your Python Scripts with Task Scheduler: Windows Task Scheduler to Scrape Alternative Data

KDnuggets

In this tutorial, you will learn how to run task scheduler to web scrape data from Lazada (eCommerce) website and dump it into SQLite RDBMS Database.

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Big Data Can Help You Amplify Your Sales In 2019

Smart Data Collective

Starting from getting data through several online and social mediums to getting it directly from the company’s database. Here’s how Big Data can help you double up your sales in 2019: Use Big Data effectively to understand who you are targeting. Companies have started collecting large amounts of data from various sources.

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Most notable person, everywhere in the world

FlowingData

The pool of possible people comes from a cross-verified database of 2.29 map from 2019 that showed the most notable person who lived in each city. This interactive map by Topi Tjukanov lets you answer that question for anywhere in the world. million people, based on Wikipedia entries and Wikidata. See also The Pudding’s U.S.

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