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Going SQL: Postgres (1/3)
Intro We tested (very quickly) a MongoDB “No SQL” backend in a former post. But many a time, good’ol SQL will be just good enough for a Backend. In the “Data Science” world, SQL is right up in the top list of key concepts. So let’s make a point to consider it in this Blog.…
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Gathering data: Scraping the web
Intro A couple of weeks ago I uploaded on my GitHub account the first version of a simple Scraping script. Getting web pages and working with them from a script, when API are not available, can be quite useful. In this case, I “scraped” the CRT.sh website, looking up information about mine. Nothing aggressive, one…
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A revelation: R Futures
Intro I have been accepting (NOT complaining about) R limitation of being mono-core, monothread. For a long time. Actually, for years. I even went all the way to using Docker to distribute compute load across CPUs of one (or more) physical machine. It was just something I had “assumed” was like that. But what little…