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Well I am here. What do you want to talk about?
This is great ๐
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.
"you know excel? Yeah, that's a database." Would be my answer.
"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