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What can Inka Quipus teach us about data management?
A blog post about the ingenious methods used by the ancient Inca culture to encode information and what insights we might draw from them today for #datascience
The value of metadata, human readibility, schema flexibility and append-only #database? Its all there 🤓
https://www.openriskmanagement.com/what-inka-quipus-teach-us-about-data-management/
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What's been going on with Monteverdi?
- There's now an output plugin with BadgerDB as the first type. My next output plugin will be MIDI, as a direct output or as a file, so the pulse sequences can be heard.
- A second Transformer plugin gives it the ability to read endpoints with just JSON instead of strict KV, which opens it up to anything that publishes telemetry in JSON blobs.
- OTel instrumentation has given me some wild and amazing insights into how robust and concurrent this is. I'm using a supervisor pattern and keeping data structures simple, because they traverse a lot of layers and hierarchies. And all of this is decoupled from the ring pulse UI.
- The inline web UI for hot reloading the configuration is maybe the coolest part. You can run this in a container and browse to the UI and change up the configuration, add endpoints, replace the entire thing if you want.
💾 From Duplicity to Borg — a backup journey
After more than a decade with Duplicity, I finally switched to BorgBackup — and wow, that difference.
📂 Source data: 719 GB in my /home
📦 Packed size: 419 GB
📉 Actual storage: 390 GB after compression
That’s more than a 45% reduction, and the upload to remote storage is much faster now.
For someone who handles geospatial and scientific data daily, this is huge.
It’s not just about saving space — it’s about making the workflow lighter, faster, and more sustainable.
🧠 Curious — what backup tools do you trust most?
#Linux #BorgBackup #OpenSource #DataManagement #Backups #DigitalResearch #IndependentResearch #DataScience #CyberSecurity #ResearchWorkflow #Geodata #Automation
If anyone reading this is in the Data Analysis industry and would be interested in facilitating some sort of unorthodox remote apprenticeship - even unpaid, if it gets me experience - please do kindly let me know.
I don't have the self-discipline for self-study right now. In fact I failed out of college twice because I couldn't handle working and attending and that was a traditional classroom experience.
Yes.. I'm asking for a shortcut. It's desperation, not hubris.