Last week, I covered how setting up a database may not be necessary when creating an app or visualization, even one that relies on data. This week we are going to walk through an example application that runs off data, but does not need a formal database.
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A while back, I attended a hackathon in Belgrade as a mentor. This hackathon was the first ‘open data’ hackathon in Serbia and focused on making applications using data that had recently been released by various ministries, government agencies, and independent bodies in Serbia. As we walked around talking to the various teams, one of the things I noticed at the time, was that almost all teams were using databases to manage their data . In most cases, the database being used was something very lightweight like SQLite3, but in some cases more serious databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) were also being used.
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