Class Journal Week 6 - Revision history

Msaeedi23: /* Mahrad Saeedi */

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‎Mahrad Saeedi

Msaeedi23: /* Mahrad Saeedi */ shared journal

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‎Mahrad Saeedi: shared journal

Blitvak: added shared journal responses for week 6

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added shared journal responses for week 6

Eyanosch: Reanswering the Class journal, hopefully it sticks this time.

2015-10-15T06:08:52Z

Reanswering the Class journal, hopefully it sticks this time.

Eyanosch: well my stuff got deleted somehow, I think when i was typing some people submitted theirs and somehow mine got lost unfortunately

2015-10-15T05:53:48Z

well my stuff got deleted somehow, I think when i was typing some people submitted theirs and somehow mine got lost unfortunately

Jkuroda: /* Josh Kuroda */ answers

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‎Josh Kuroda: answers

Troque: Added Trixie's entry

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Added Trixie's entry

Nanguiano: added my answers

2015-10-15T04:55:07Z

added my answers

Malverso: answered #3

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answered #3

Malverso: answered #2

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answered #2

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 # Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But ''you'' just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
 #*A programming language is necessary to do the talking because there needs to be one language that can be used across the various platforms such as Mac or Windows. This "universal language" in a sense makes programming much more versatile in its applications.
 ==Anu Varshneya==

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 ==Mahrad Saeedi==
 # Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
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+#*Yes, it makes complete sense. How some of these, like Fitbit can create data, and, on the other hand, websites obtain their data from a database and convert them to fit the web page format. It's interesting to look over the issues with data management; more data equals more programming.
 # Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
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+#*The analogy only makes sense under certain circumstances. With building the bookstore database, it made book stores irrelevant because, using the database, you are able to create an "ultimate" online bookstore that caters more efficiently to all audiences. The pharmacy analogy doesn't hold true for me because drug databases can provide necessary information regarding drugs, their uses, and methods of administrating. No one person would be able to extract every ingredient for a drug in order to produce it and start a pharmacy; that just wouldn't happen.
 # Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But ''you'' just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
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+#*A programming language is necessary to do the talking because there needs to be one language that can be used across the various platforms such as Mac or Windows. This "universal language" in a sense makes programming much more versatile in its applications.
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 ==Anu Varshneya==

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		+	==Brandon Litvak==
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		+	#Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
		+	#*I think that the exercise with the FDA drug database helped give me a sense of how a set of “raw” data might look like before it is processed and incorporated into a database but the appearance of the data in the examples given in section 5.1, I feel, still remains to me a mystery; this data seems like it would look fairly different from what was seen in this week’s assignment, given the big differences between the given databases and the FDA one. Spotify information, and Twitter, especially, seem like examples of massive databases that involve a lot of constant CRUD operations; the FDA database and its data, in comparison, seems to be a lot simpler than these other databases.
		+	#Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
		+	#*I think that the drug database that we built is still extremely far from being a pharmacy-killer. Unlike pharmacies, the database that we built does not provide any services to people and, thus, it will not be able to act as a viable replacement (it’s kind of static). At the moment, this database just feels like an excellent organization of raw data that can be utilized for different queries. I think that the analogy (Amazon) proposed by the author is an apt one because databases can be exploited and used (and certainly have been) in ways that can lead to services that are simply far better and more efficient than whatever that had come before them.
		+	#Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
		+	#*I think that a programming language would add several layers and give options that could make the “talking” easier and more efficient than what was done in this exercise. Languages like Java also seem like they would be extremely useful, if not necessary, in the maintenance of large-scale databases that are constantly being updated and changed. Programming languages seem like a necessity for larger sets of data (massive-scale) because they can permit an efficient automation of processes and an easier kind of "communication" with a database, which can streamline processes that can otherwise take an exorbitant amount of time or resources.
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 == Erich Yanoschik ==
+#Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
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+#* I have a greater understanding of how databases are stored and utilized by SQL and other programs. After using different tables within our own database, I could see the intricacies involved in cross database interactions. This could prove very fruitful providing products like Spotify and Twitter. Without the tools to search and pick out certain aspects these databases would just be large piles of information.
+#Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
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+#* I somewhat agree with the analogy, that they did build the death of bookstores but it was much more than that. They built a more efficient and evolved bookstore, if the original version was unable to adapt then it was doomed to fail from the beginning, there is only survival of the fittest in the market today. I don't believe this transitions over to pharmacies, a book can be downloaded and information pulled from the screen. With drugs you can download their information but can't 3-D print or ingest them over the computer. You have to visit a pharmacy and recieve a doctors note, now if you had a database of forged doctors notes for every drug that would be different, you could print it out and go to your local drug store and have a free for all. That would not be so good, but the pharmacies would still make some money and persist.
+#Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
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+#* For starters programming languages are an intermediary between the user and the computer. I don't know binary and the computer doesn't know English. Programming languages add to the efficiency of whatever action or process is taking place, without these languages simple actions would take forever and nothing would get accomplished.

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 # Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
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+#* Now that I have seen and worked with the back-end of databases, I feel like working with the gigantic stores of something like Spotify could be intimidating, especially because of the ramifications of making a mistake in those cases. With this being said, I also feel like database software and code makes apps like those possible, because of the sheer number of inputs when dealing with something as large as social media or music.
 # Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
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+#* In this case, I think I have just created a database that is widely used by many physical pharmacies, so I don't believe I have "built the death of pharmacies." Although I do think that a bookstore database destroys part of the appeal that physical bookstores offer, where one can stumble upon a book that she otherwise would not have found.
 # Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But ''you'' just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
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+#* Like he said in the article, Java runs on a virtual machine and has thousands of libraries at its disposal, which is very useful when trying to make a new program, or in this case, a database. Implementing a database using Java is not only convenient, but stable and consistent, so that database users can feel safe when "talking" to their database.
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	#Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?		#Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
	#* Having learned some of the mathematics behind what is going on with queries like the ones we performed in this assignment, it is extremely helpful to use a programming language to talk to the database. Programming languages provide a level of abstraction - they turn the 'computer stuff" from complicated gibberish into "english". Just like a person could write a program entirely in assembly, it's significantly easier, faster, and less frustrating to program the same program in Java or Javascript.		#* Having learned some of the mathematics behind what is going on with queries like the ones we performed in this assignment, it is extremely helpful to use a programming language to talk to the database. Programming languages provide a level of abstraction - they turn the 'computer stuff" from complicated gibberish into "english". Just like a person could write a program entirely in assembly, it's significantly easier, faster, and less frustrating to program the same program in Java or Javascript.
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		+	== Trixie Roque ==
		+	# Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
		+	#* I definitely feel like I have a better understanding of how data is stored in a computer. Although I have taken classes which gave me an idea of how data is stored in memory, this is actually the first time, I’ve seen it visually. When I took my computer systems class, I learned about how memory is stored in registers and how to move that data around, but I never actually saw what that would look like (although it was pretty obvious from what my professor would draw in our class that memory storage systems can be visualized as a table).
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		+	# Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
		+	#* I don’t think that we’ve built the death of pharmacies since there is still a need for human interaction between the buyer and the person behind the register. People can’t just buy whatever medicine they want because they have to be prescribed by a doctor. I think the analogy, though, is fairly good in terms of how technology continues to revolutionize our lives that we can probably do most things in the future at home lying on the couch. However, there is a long process in between actually designing the application (in this case, an application that will perhaps one day bring about the death of pharmacies) and realizing it.
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		+	# Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
		+	#* A programming language can easily automate specific actions that a human being takes ages to accomplish. Programming languages are built to do repetitive tasks and this “talking to a database” can probably be done in a matter of lines of code from a specific language instead of copying and pasting several similar lines.
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		+	== Nicole Anguiano ==
		+	#Based on what you have seen of the FDA database, do you feel that you have a better understanding of how the data mentioned in section 5.1—Spotify music, Fitbit exercise tracking, Twitter tweets, IRS tax returns, etc.—might look when stored on a computer?
		+	#* I do believe I have a better understanding of how the data may be stored; however, in the case of Twitter, Fitbit, and Spotify, I think that there is still a very significant amount that remains a mystery. These databases are large, ever changing, and constantly growing, and are being accessed by (in the case of Twitter and Spotify) thousands of users a day. The sheer magnitude and complexity behind the databases (which are often composed of many databases of many different types) can't be captured by the FDA drug database.
		+	#Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
		+	#* I do not believe that we have built the death of pharmacies - at least not yet. Currently, pharmacies are still in active use. The need for a pharmacist to explain the dosage and usage instructions of a drug is still very strong, and I do not see that changing anytime soon. Additionally, the drugs given out at pharmacies need to be prescribed by a doctor; it isn't like bookstores where anyone could buy any book, and any person can find the book they want to buy online. Even the online orders for prescription drugs still go through a pharmacy for processing. In the immediate future, the need for pharmacies will still be strong.
		+	#Section 5.3 says that the Java language can “talk to a database.” But you just “talked” to a database in this assignment. Why do you think you would need a programming language to do the talking?
		+	#* Having learned some of the mathematics behind what is going on with queries like the ones we performed in this assignment, it is extremely helpful to use a programming language to talk to the database. Programming languages provide a level of abstraction - they turn the 'computer stuff" from complicated gibberish into "english". Just like a person could write a program entirely in assembly, it's significantly easier, faster, and less frustrating to program the same program in Java or Javascript.

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 #Section 5.2 half-jokingly says that, by building a bookstore, you actually built the death of bookstores. You just built a drug database—have you actually built the death of pharmacies? What do you think of this analogy?
 #*I assume that the half-joke is a reference to Amazon. Admittedly, I buy a lot of books off of amazon, especially because it is faster to search for a book with keywords then by walking up and down the aisles of a bookstore I had to drive to in a car that I don’t even own. Book databases definitely fill the needs of the people, no matter the destruction of traditional bookstores that online bookstores leave in their paths. I do not think that our drug database replaces pharmacies because most people go to pharmacies nowadays already knowing what drug they need, since it was likely prescribed to them by their doctor, and can pick it up conveniently from a neighborhood pharmacy. The death of pharmacies is especially unlikely from our database because our database does not have an option to ship the drugs themselves to the customers. Therefore the convenience of the drug database is fairly little.
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