Swizec's articles in the "data" category
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Below are 15 articles filed under data. Enjoy ❤️
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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How better data modeling fixes your code
When your code feels hard, 9 times out of 10, the problem is with your data model. The signs are subtle.
September 27th, 2022
Notes on A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
In 1970 a paper came out that changed the world of business computing. It laid the ground work for modern databases.
September 20th, 2022
Anything's a sorting problem if you squint hard enough
What's the most algorithmically fun code you've written recently? 🤔 Here's mine: A dataviz using a grid of triangles that fits into the client's logo.
September 7th, 2021
Lesson learned, test your migrations on the big dataset
September 2nd, 2015
With 90k I could become a full-time author
July 18th, 2014
Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees
December 25th, 2013
I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.
October 29th, 2013
The trials and tribulations of a large-ish dataset
January 15th, 2013
My brain can't handle OOP anymore
May 7th, 2012
Django and IE9 don't play well together
March 19th, 2012
Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes
December 29th, 2011
Nondeterministic turing machine simulator in 23 lines of JavaScript
November 23rd, 2011
The strange world of getting user data onto a piece of paper
October 24th, 2011
Collect your data carefully, a lesson
October 3rd, 2011
Software Engineering Lessons from Production
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"Man, love your simple writing! Yours is the only newsletter I open and only blog that I give a fuck to read & scroll till the end. And wow always take away lessons with me. Inspiring! And very relatable. 👌"