In this XQuery use case, I consider whether higher education in the U.S. is countercyclical to recessions.
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Query Tools, Research | Gary Lewis, August 10, 2009 1:52 pm | 
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Recently I asked folks on an XQuery listserv if XQuery might play a role in a p2p web anticipated by such recent announcements as Google’s Wave and Opera’s Unite. Below is an edited version of that conversation. Read more.
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Query Tools | Gary Lewis, June 19, 2009 7:52 am | Comments (2)
In a continued search for a worthy web query tool, I spent a fair amount of time playing with Zorba’s XQuery and the 20,000 time series from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database. I continue to be impressed. Read more.
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Query Tools, Research | Gary Lewis, June 8, 2009 4:14 pm | Comments Off
There’s huge interest in harnessing the web as a giant database, and the motivations for this are easily as diverse as the interest is large. I’m just looking for a precursor. Read more.
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Query Tools | Gary Lewis, April 24, 2009 9:58 am | Comments (1)
Stephen Downes recently advised technology developers what not to build. My response: the major entrepreneurial and socially constructive opportunities await new data systems that will architecturally simplify the web and make it more accessible. Read more.
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Commentary, Query Tools | Gary Lewis, January 5, 2009 8:58 pm | Comments Off
In search of any tool that can actually do web queries and analysis, I examine Yahoo’s new Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Read more.
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Commentary, Query Tools | Gary Lewis, November 21, 2008 4:17 pm | Comments Off
I got sidetracked today into nuances in Google search, discovering some useful ways to refine searches but also making me wish yet again for more robust query tools. Read more.
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Commentary, Query Tools | Gary Lewis, July 30, 2008 11:16 am | Comments (2)
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