I joined lemm.ee and I’m honestly really liking it so far. @[email protected] is doing a great job!

However, I’m wondering if I should create a new account on programming.dev (or somewhere else) to be closer to where data science / data engineering conversations are happening.

Or maybe there’s a way to promote [email protected] to folks on other instances? (I didn’t create this one but I’m hoping it’s discovered by others soon)

  • jackattackson@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    This is great 😂

    I am down to talk about anything honestly - but just off the top of my head right now:

    Can you think of a good analogy to explain databases to complete beginners?

    The ole ‘filing cabinet’ analogy is used a lot but I am looking for something fresh. The students will be epidemiologists / public health people that are very science literate but not necessarily tech-savvy.

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      1 year ago

      “databases” is pretty broad - the literal meaning of the word is adequate and sufficient to describe what they are - just things made to store data. analogies may obscure the generality of the term…

      particular types of databases all have different analogies that could help beginners, though