Databases: The Model
The information that some companies collect is an asset in and of itself due to the power of data. Working for a local business data provider startup, I focused on collecting menus from local businesses, primarily restaurants. With a database of all food items and their prices sold at restaurants, I was able to learn some interesting facts! What is the average price of a pizza in San Francisco, you ask? Which restaurants in a five-mail radius of my hotel have kimchi on the menu? No problem. Collecting such data allows you to answer people’s previously unanswerable questions.
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