June 2009
2 posts
NYT_Transformer and Data.gov: Your chance for a...
The awesome developers at
The New York Times’ Open blog have just
posted about
NYT_Transformer,
a tool for converting between various data formats (XML, comma-separated files)
and data storage mediums (flat files, databases).
This isn’t the first time such a conversion utility has been
written—Babel comes to mind. The
NYT_Transformer has a few perks in its favor, however,...
MIT Database Systems (6.830) TA Course Notes
In Fall 2008, I had the pleasure of TAing
Database Systems with
Sam Madden,
Mike Stonebraker,
and Evan Jones.
I figured that I could take notes to help students
follow the lectures while clarifying any confusing points that were raised
during discussion. It would also help me avoid the embarrassment of forgetting
something mentioned during a lecture and having students explain it to me
during...