Questions tagged [data]
Data are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items. Data in computing (or data processing) are represented in a structure, often tabular (represented by rows and columns), a tree (a set of nodes with parent-children relationship) or a graph structure (a set of ...
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PHP blockchain data saving approach
I want to implement the blockchain in a PHP licensing system that I'm working on.
For now I didn't decided if to store the data block inside a database or in a file. What's the best approach to ...
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Design for constantly “saving” user data in the event they navigate away from the page
We are in the process of converting a desktop application to a web application, and one of the challenges we are facing is the fact that when you make a change to the desktop application, it regularly ...
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Regulations about collecting data from software running at clients hardware (apps 'phoning home') [closed]
We develop an application which has now been installed on a few thousand customers sites.
Unfortunately, we have no customer data collection built into the software. This is something we want to ...
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database/orm model design for contacts
I am building a internal crm which has contacts which are just people with first name, last name, email, phone etc. Contacts can be one or more types e.t.c. job candidates, hiring managers, customers, ...
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Cumulative sum of overlapping increase/decrease over time
I am looking for an efficient way to handle a calculation. I have lots of timestamped events, representing loading and unloading of trucks. I need to construct the filling rate of these trucks over ...
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How to find matching profiles?
I'm developing backend for a dating app, in which each user has
a profile of his/her characteristics
a profile of ideal match's characteristics
There are dozens of characteristics like gender, ...
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Time series database for low-resolution data
Does it make sense using a time series database, such as opentsdb, for very low-resolution data (hourly, daily) or I should rather use a relational/NoSQL database engine instead?
It's quite possible ...
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separate table for one of the type or java enum?
I want to make budget tracking web-app, tracking all savings and expenses with corresponding dates. Later generating reports, summaries etc..
I came up this design
Frequency Table - does it have to ...
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Distributed training of many small ML models
I have a data science application that involves training tens of thousands of small individual Gaussian models. By "small", I mean that any individual model can easily be trained on one of our worker ...
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Combine n-Linear Series into DataGrid
I'm scratching my head at this, I really need to redesign the schema of an old existing data concept we have in our db. The more I work on it, the more I see why they took an easy way out.
Currently, ...
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How can I offload customer's data needs onto the customer?
I write code for an Engineering application where engineers keep giving me various specs in a form of tabular data - for example, a table with product model names and many various parameters for each ...
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File storage microservice design
Problem overview:
I'm creating a spring application just for learning purposes. I would like to create a microservice just for files, which:
at the beginning would have only two basic endpoints ...
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How to store external numeric IDs - as strings or as integers?
Every now and then we programmers need to communicate with external systems (not under our own control). It's frequent that in such cases we need to keep track of some sort of identifiers that these ...
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Battery level prediction model
I have the idea of develop a model that predicts the battery charge level of my system for now until the following 5 days. The battery is charged using a solar panel. I am writing my code in Python 2....
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Development Process for Building Data Intensive Applications
I have been building production ETL applications for the team I am currently part of and the dev process for any given app has been going like:
Initial requirements and data
Build functional ...
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Which datastructure to use for temporary storage of intermittent and asynchronous sensor data?
Here an outline of the setup:
Input data:
I have several sources for sensor input data (GPS, and a bunch of other sensor data from different sources).
All of those individual inputs consist of a ...
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data vs business logic
Today my manager said: 'Amir, don't mix the business logic with data in database'.
I surprisingly shocked! I said 'Where?'.
According to wikipedia business logic is:
In computer software, business ...
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How to implement dynamic settings in a web app — db table design?
In my web app I want to be able to use Settings as an admin that I can edit/remove/add via my admin page
I think I'll create a table like this:
settings(id: int, key: string, value: string)
I ...
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How to structure an application (and its user interface) such that extraneous and/or malformed data can be handled?
I recently applied for a position as a software developer. As a part of the recruitment process, I was given an assignment that involves reading data from a file.
The thing is that the example file ...
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Does Wikipedia Store Every Edit Page? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I was looking at a Wikipedia article and noticed there were a lot of edits for that article. Since you can view each edited iteration ...
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Are data attributes good identifiers of certain blocks of HTML code?
I have a complex environment which is mostly oriented around / ends up spitting out blocks of HTML, which make up the entire page.
Now, I need a way to "point and click" identify any block on my page ...
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Microservices - sharing data through distributed in-memory cache?
I'm fairly new to both microservices and shared in-memory databases like Redis.
I'm wondering though if it would be a good idea to combine the two to address the challenges of data duplication, ...
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Abstract data communication in modular design
I'm doing the analysis for a software which I've had in mind for a long time. Its purpose is to turn sound into an image, apply graphical transformations on it, and turn it back into sound to hear the ...
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Software layers and data mapping
Before I would ask my question, here is the context: I am working on one part of a relatively big software. In its simplest form there are 3 layers of the software lets call them lower layer, middle ...
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Putting the rowmapper inside the domain class
Normally in java the RowMapper is placed in its own class.
Instead, what about this design, putting the RowMapper inside each domain object, and giving all of them a consistent name:
public class ...
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What is the best way to represent data with inheritance?
In my current work, we need to serialize some data and use it later.
Our data is in this format:
<resources>
<style name="Person">
<item name="name">name</item>
<...
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Where to place POCOs validation - N-layers architecture
I am developing an n-layer app.
One of the layer is the BusinessLayer and consumes a set of POCOs defined in the CoreLayer. Also I have a PresentationLayer (WinForms)
CoreLayer
POCOs (classes with ...
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Design patterns / Names for data consolidation
I'm new to coding and I don't know how what I'm trying to do is called, and I want to find out so I can do more research and not re-invent the wheel. I looked for things such as data consolidation/...
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Does it make sense to iterate a ranged for loop using constant reference here?
I have the following code, and I was wondering if I'm optimally iterating through my ranged for loop:
struct data_type
{
int a;
int b;
};
int main()
{
// Assume I have initialized a ...
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What options are there to administrate a database for an online business? [closed]
Say you create a small online business from scratch, a nice Rails or Django app or something to that effect.
With luck, you end up with a database full of customer orders and things.
Now, aside ...
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Data goverance design for Hadoop cluster without apache atlas or cloudera navigator
I am working on a hadoop cluster that needs to implement some form of data governance (for my purposes, say just data lineage/provenance for tracking the history of files in the HDFS). This cluster ...
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How to store large test data sets. Git? [duplicate]
We have a camera application that does measurements on pictures. We have a feature for saving a "demo" containing the pictures/data used, and to replay this for test purposes. We use such data sets ...
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Are there benefits to having a SQL-like read only database layer over a Blockchain distributed ledger? [closed]
Distributed Blockchain datastores provide inmutability to recorded transactions and only allow to add records accepted by a consensus algorithm in sequence. You could store data on the blockchain or ...
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How to solve double withdrawal attacks on decentralized databases
I need a way to solve double withdrawal attacks in decentralized databases.
For example, a banking infrastructure has multiple servers with their own databases, the advantage is that it lets citizens ...
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Is it acceptable to test based on test output data rather than input data in unit tests?
I'm used to write unit tests with assertions which are based on the input, e.g. (hopefully self-explanatory and let's assume that using random test data is fine)
int a = random();
int b = random();
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Should files/data follow rules like 'open-closed principle'?
Does 'open-closed principle' also includes files and data of the app? According to https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/296955/248528, it says files and data are't included, but it doesn't ...
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Bridging application development practices and game development practices
I previously ran into an interesting practice called occlusion culling in game development. I am still researching to gain more understanding of how it works, since this is mostly discussed in game ...
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Keeping sensitive data encrypted in memory
I'm working in a Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) system and need be very careful with sensitive data like credit card numbers.
We need this information do mount the ISO 8583 data before sending to ...
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What is data persistence in the context of software engineering?
I imagine it is simply, as it is named, the existence of data throughout layers of a software application. I ask because I have not been able to find a clear definition that states something of the ...
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Binary data formats, how to make ensure you can read different format versions?
On our project we have this data format that we use to process and record data on. As of late our application changed so that many of the data formats parameters have become obsolete. Currently we ...
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How does Steam resume downloads without computing a partial hash?
The Steam Client application allows one to download games purchased through the associated Steam account. A typical modern game uses quite a bit of disk space (in the order of 50-70 GB), so it is not ...
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Security of data viewed and altered by a web app
I am working on a system that needs to keep the data safe and not accessible to people without authorized access. The client is a web app that communicates with the servers via APIs. This is what I ...
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Should repeatedly-computed quantities derived from member data be stored in member data containers?
This question is generally regarding when it is a good idea to store quantities derived from member data in, say, std::vectors that will be repeatedly computed/accessed in various methods, but I will ...
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Import configuration and relational data
Suppose that a user has multiple items. Each item would have complex configuration - multiple tables with relationships.
Each configuration table would have an id and a item_id which is a FK to items ...
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What is the best way to load data from DB upon application launch?
I am writing an iOS application in XCode. The data loaded for the multitudes of viewcontrollers is generally loaded from the DB upon the viewDidLoad() or viewDidAppear() for that particular VC, or it ...
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Why is it considered a good practice to isolate data management in a microservice?
I have seen proponents of isolating data management and storage into microservices in a way that each microservice has its own data store (at least in a logical sense). Hence, joins and aggregations ...
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Serving heterogenous data from backend
There is an application which serves a huge list of resources and in the UI the users are able to filter the resources by type and other properties.
The resources are of different types but they have ...
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Is there any use case for using 'L' letter after a number literal in C?
I know that in C code using L after a number tells the compiler that the respective number is L.
However I do not see any practical use for this. Do modern compilers still have a use for this ...
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Would having 4 states per “bit” rather than 2 mean twice the storage space?
Pretty straightforward fundamental, albeit naive, question:
Would having 4 states per "bit" rather than 2 mean twice the storage space? In case that isn't clear, I mean as in if every "storage ...
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Database design for fields that should be NOT NULL eventually, but may not yet have a value
I have encountered this problem a number of times. Let's say you have a large object that you want to store in the database. Perhaps it's a dating profile for a user, and it has 100 fields. All of ...
