Tootfinder

All I can say is 'oh crap'...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canadian-tire-says-recent-breach-of-e-commerce-database-involved-customer-info/

from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet

Turns out, that if you want to do a database migration - it is much faster to do it when the database is physically close to you, and not 3000km away
/s

"use the cool SaaS" they said.
"it will be fast & migrate data to the point of frequent use" they said.
(the data being retrieved is like 2 kB)

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

Task-Aware Reduction for Scalable LLM-Database Systems
Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Taher A. Ghaleb, Safwat Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11813 https://arxi…

Task-Aware Reduction for Scalable LLM-Database Systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to data-intensive workflows, from database querying to developer observability. Yet the effectiveness of these systems is constrained by the volume, verbosity, and noise of real-world text-rich data such as logs, telemetry, and monitoring streams. Feeding such data directly into LLMs is costly, environmentally unsustainable, and often misaligned with task objectives. Parallel efforts in LLM efficiency have focused on model- or architecture-l…

National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results
Jonathan A. Karr Jr, Ben Darden, Nicholas Pell, Ryan M. Fryer, Kayla Ambrose, Evan Hall, Ramzi K. Bualuan, Nitesh V. Chawla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10600

National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results
The National Running Club Database (NRCD) aggregates 15,397 race results of 5,585 athletes from the 2023 and 2024 cross country seasons. This paper introduces the NRCD dataset, which provides insights into individual athlete progressions, enabling data-driven decision-making. Analysis reveals that runners' improvement per calendar day for women, racing 6,000m, and men, racing 8,000m, is more pronounced in athletes with slower initial race times and those who race more frequently. Additionally, …

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

from my link log —
pglinter: database linting and analysis for PostgreSQL.
https://pglinter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
saved 2025-10-14 https://

{ggrain}: Raincloud plots for ggplot2: #rstats #dataviz