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Re:FeatureBase: Open-Source, Real-Time Database Built on Roa... by elina123 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:32AM (#32836223)
any ideas on real life Use Cases?
Re:FeatureBase: Open-Source, Real-Time Database Built on Roa... by clowen on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:40AM (#32836316)
I am planning to use it in a project to make the new Congressional API data more approachable for people.

https://api.congress.gov/#/

Hopefully make it easy to find all the bills that your specific congress person was involved in for example.

Re:FeatureBase: Open-Source, Real-Time Database Built on Roa... by kordlessagain on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:56PM (#32843233)
From what I understand, machine learning models may use this in ETL pipelines as well as serving as part of the models themselves. There's an article on that here: https://medium.com/analytics-and-data/overview-of-the-differ...

FeatureBase could be the "feature store" in the middle of the batch prediction section's diagram, or simply be a drop-in replacement for the model's registry.

Re:FeatureBase: Open-Source, Real-Time Database Built on Roa... by jaffee on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:57AM (#32836503)
many! It was originally developed for marketing use cases- helping marketers understand up-to-date use her behavior and find interesting segments.

But really it's useful anytime you need low latency analytics on fresh data.