There is a whole industry out there that is involved in dealing with large data sets, and by large I mean millions of units. You would think that they would, at least some of them, get involved in politics and fill in the basics, the foundational data sets that we need to actually monitor our governments.
If they are, I'm seeing little evidence of it. Sure, there are data applications in the government sector that deal with big data. How could there not be in a country with over 300 million people. But nobody seems to be doing the foundations, the basics, that are necessary to manage the whole system without fudging or guesswork.
Pentaho, Hadoop, Jasper reports, experts in these technologies should be seeing that we're missing very simple, basic data sets that are foundational and then moving in to supply them. But nope, no evidence that it's happening.
Weird.
A database is just a place to put data. SQL will allow all manner of interaction with that database but you will need to build a front end to handle interaction with that DB.
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These are applications, very simply phpmyadmin, and for the big boys more beastly things but hey nothing is stopping you from learning SQL and enough HTML etc to build your own. Perhaps you could get some open sores weenies to help. ;)
You would give Steve Jobs an aneurism if he were still alive. I am talking about making the whole widget
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