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Thinking about data as object vs table row [closed]

It often happens that we have a set of structured data. Let's say our data is about charitable organizations. I could turn it into a list/set of objects/structs: struct Charity { let name: String ...
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Best way to model assay steps with low variability?

I have to process biological data input in the format of 96-well plates. explainer for the non-biologists: These plates are basically a 2D matrix of 8 rows x 12 columns of small cups called wells. ...
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Help designing a product model with vast amount of properties

I've been asked how to re-design a legacy system by a relative for a company that builds custom chairs. On their website you can customize your chair in about 30 permutations : chair type, material, ...
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What kind of diagram best represents the field-level mapping from one system component to another?

In my environment, we have multiple systems developed independently by different teams. Those teams frequently recreate the wheel because they're building applications, not building blocks. As a ...
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Database Modeling Question

I am having a doubt while creating a DB, and I would like to know if there are objective arguments that could help me mak a better decision. Case A project that can have several revisions, so I ...
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How to model relational data that can be organized in multiple ways? [closed]

I’m working in a project that is building a system to manage data (10-20 million records) collected by a research organization. One of the challenges is that even though the data is superficially ...
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Design patterns for processing/manipulating data

Sometimes when I write a class or piece of code that has to deal with parsing or processing of data, I have to ask myself, if there might be a better solution to the problem. Example 1: In a recent ...
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How should I design an ordered list resource in a restful service?

I've run into this same problem over and over again and I haven't found a solution that I really felt was optimal. Say in an app, you have an ordered list and you let the user change that order by ...
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How many vertices/nodes are too many in a graph and stop being beneficial?

Background I'm working on a project that requires me to keep track of transactions as well as the flow of items in a game. In order to do that, I'm storing those transaction in a graph db (Orient-DB)....
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Lightweight data modeling vs traditional classes [closed]

I've heard a lot of talk about using lightweight data modeling as of late. Especially in relation to the Clojure programming language. What is it and how it differs from traditional classes regarding ...
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Algorithm/Strategy or Data structure to capture priorities sub priorities in an app

I am working on a CMS that is starting to evolve a bit. We started off with content that had the following priorities ( columnn in the db on the content table): HIGH MED LOW. Data was fetched by ...
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