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Database of feathers

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There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase , because of course there is: Featherbase is a working group of German feather scientists and other collectors worldwide who came together with their personal collections and created the biggest and most comprehensive online feather library in the world. Tags: birds , feather.

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Scented products with potentially harmful ingredients

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For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting : Data collected by the California Department of Public Health showed 108 potentially harmful substances listed as fragrance ingredients in everyday products ranging from face wash to conditioner, a Bloomberg analysis of database entries as of Feb.

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Interactive timeline of notable people throughout history

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Based on data from a cross-verified database of notable people , Tulp scrolls through history to show when these people enter and leave the world based on their age. Tags: history , Jan Willem Tulp , timeline This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Start in 3500 BC and scroll from there.

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How SnapLogic built a text-to-pipeline application with Amazon Bedrock to translate business intent into action

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The SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform (IIP) enables organizations to realize enterprise-wide automation by connecting their entire ecosystem of applications, databases, big data, machines and devices, APIs, and more with pre-built, intelligent connectors called Snaps.

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Shifting bird populations

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Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird , Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in bird populations for the Washington Post. Tags: birds , eBird , population , Washington Post Be sure to check out the interactive at the end that lets you search the full species list. The scale of this project continues to amaze.

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Visual history of Yahoo Pipes

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While RSS was key, Pipes also let users grab other data and feed formats, like Atom, RDF (incorporated into RSS 2.0), and CSV (comma-separated values, a simple database and spreadsheet export format). Tags: Glenn Fleishman , history , Yahoo With Pipes, any user could create entries for any number of data sources.

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Simplifying Time Series Analysis for Data Scientists

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Be sure to check out his talk, “ What is a Time-series Database and Why do I Need One? The time series database (TSDB) , however, is still an underutilized tool in the data science community. And retrieving data is straightforward with a query language like SQL where you can filter by value, tag, time range, and more.