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Unraveling the Web: Navigating Databases in Web Technology

Towards AI

Items in your shopping carts, comments on all your posts, and changing scores in a video game are examples of information stored somewhere in a database. Which begs the question what is a database? Types of Databases: There are many different types of databases. The tables store data in the form of rows and columns.

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Understanding earthquakes: what map visualizations teach us

Cambridge Intelligence

FREE: The ultimate guide to graph visualization Proven strategies for building successful graph visualization applications GET YOUR FREE GUIDE The earthquakes data source The data I used is from the USGS’s National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), whose extensive databases of seismic information are freely available.

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

Smart Data Collective

Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn’t, but the overall feeling when it came to Big Data was still positive because of the potential it had for delivering insights to the business world. The Thrust for Data Lake Creation. The Second Problem – Quickly Querying Data.