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Friedrich Lindenberg
Personal blog · pudo.org/blog · on HN as pudodatapoliticsprogramming
Friedrich Lindenberg's personal blog at pudo.org covers data, politics and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
I write open source software and build public interest databases. For the past decade, I've worked with investigative journalists and anti-corruption activists to build data-driven tools that support their work.
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For what it's worth, I spent last month trying to use RDF tooling (Python bindings, triple stores) for a project recently, and the experience has left me convinced that none of it is workable for an average-size, client-server web application. There may well be a number of good points to the model of graph data, but in practice, 16 years of development have not lead to production-ready tools; so my guess is that ano…
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