We started to use MonetDB, a column store database in a couple of projects involving querying over our DataWarehouses, created from public open data. The goal of one of the projects, called Educational Data Lab, is to return information about educational indicators in Brazil, with its historical evolution. We have nowadays about 100Gb of data…
Read MoreDeveloping Open Data solutions is often challenging for different reasons. The first challenge, once the application is defined, is to get the correct data source and to process it in some useful way. There are several Open Data governmental initiatives worldwide, such as the ones from Brazil, USA or UK (to name only 3). Two…
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