[Edu-sig] Rich Data Streams

[kirby urner]

Yeah, excellent raw material with real world applications.

E.g.:
http://wiki.gleducar.org.ar/wiki/Nombres_Propios_de_Personas

When working on a data transformation between MS Access
and Postgres, we had this need to not use real client data,
which was of a sensitive nature.  The need to manufacture
huge numbers of fake individuals, simply to test a database
design with bogus content, during development, is very real.

The value added by a student of Python would be to take
such raw text files and repackage them in a suitable Python
data structure that could just be imported as a part of a module.

I'm not saying this isn't going on as we speak.  Depends on
the classroom and whether the school keeps a server (usually
you have faculty experts supervising different areas, helping
the data stay sane).

Kirby

On 8/25/07, Daniel Ajoy <da.ajoy at gmail.com> wrote:
> For the OLPC I had suggested the following datasets
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_content_ideas/data_sets
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> Daniel
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