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Looking for session/event analytics analysis tool
I have data that is basically made up of a set of sessions filled with events.
For example:
Session1 - [Event1] [Event2] [Event3]...[Event64]
Session2 - [Event1] [Event3] [Event4]...[Event64]
The ...
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Data aggregation like polyvore.com [closed]
I'm creating a website that is going to aggregate women shoes from across the web into one website. Kinda like polyvore.com does with all their products but mine is only going to be shoes. Which ...
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Design pattern for data privileges
I'm designing a financial system that should grant access to data based on roles and privileges. For example, a manager can see the financial transaction of users under his domain but not information ...
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Best Practices for Maintaining Uppercase vs Proper Case Data
We have several years of customer data that has been collected over time. I'd guess that 95% of the data (Names, Business Names & Addresses) is in all UPPERCASE format.
The data entry tool used ...
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mapping data with a spike to a heat map [migrated]
I have the following data set that I need to display on the heat map:
[ 30, 15, 66, 7, 9999, 78, 42, 132 ]
So if I map the values to the color scale using a linear function I only see the spike ...
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How to process an endless XML data stream
There is an endless data stream of XML messages (and "heartbeats"), that I receive via a telnet connection and through a site-to-site VPN IPsec tunnel.
I'm still pondering. What is the best/most ...
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Extracting data point locations from a postscript/pdf plot [closed]
There are a number of tools available for manually extracting the x/y coordinates of points in a data plot, such as WebPlotDigitizer and digitize.
They work well when there are only a few ...
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How would I create a program in python that would pull data from the web [closed]
Like my title says I'm wondering how to do so. I have a little idea by using the Requests library. I also want to know is this a little ambitious of a programmer with little experience.
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Is a single object to be preferred over multiple variables?
It was quite hard to put what I meant into a title, but it's easy to put into code.
C++
Is this
int offset_x = 10;
int offset_y = 40;
...
element.move(offset_x, offset_y);
To be preferred over ...
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What's a good format for documenting hundreds of data feeds?
Several governments are starting to publish open data: datasets generated by the goverment, made freely available for citizens to use for value-added app development, analysis, and feedback. For ...
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Why build data models in a dynamic language?
Background
This question stems out of an architectural discussion we had at work.
For the current project we are using Python and an object oriented database. There are input services that we ...
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Why do “data types” in computers exist, if it's really all just bits? [closed]
I am confused with the wide array of ways to implement existing data types in hardware as it all seems a bit illusory.
For example:
There's no such thing as a software stack or a hardware stack; a ...
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Design strategies for storing and validating serial numbers
We are writing software to track Foo Widgets. Each Foo Widget has a serial number. The serial number is an 32-character alphanumeric string. The string is separated into five sets. Each set is ...
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Storing 'sensitive' data in settings file
I'm writing a small utility in AutoIt that connects to Twitter. I would like to store the username and password in the programs setting file, but I know that it needs to be encrypted obviously. ...
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Multiple Display of a Document and persist each viewer change in a single document
i have a scenario where i have to make available a document for viewing and editing to multiple users, the users can edit and view the document at the same time. Now the problem arises here if for ...
