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Any data folks on lemm.ee? Should I join a different instance? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"you know excel? Yeah, that's a database." Would be my answer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You know, I'm something of a database architect myself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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