Rapidly updating entries
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How would one go about adding data the requires regular updates, such as stock and currency prices, populations, etc?
Well, if there's one kind of information that I'm not expecting here, it is the "rapidly changing information", as it is useless to compile into a general purpose database data that is changing every second/minute/day like stocks, currency, weather, etc. Of course it isn't banned but it would be useless to put it in there as nobody will try to recuperate it and expect up-to-date data. There may be a solution but it will probably require the change of some fundamentals of TheBigDB. Which won't be soon.
Population count changes more rarely (generally once a year), so it is cool in my mind. There can still be the question of "how to validate a recently sourced new population count, so as not to wait for upvotes to correct the statements returned?"; I have a few ideas there but will be working on them a bit, test them out, before talking about it.
Thanks for the question! I will add all this information in the (coming soon) Guidelines page.
Why not just add the period to the item for real time data?
Like so:
{ nodes: ["New York", "temperature", "66° F"], period: { from: "2013-05-11 12:00:00", to: "2013-05-11 12:01:00" }}.
or { nodes: ["Google", "share price", "880.23"], period: { from: "2013-05-11 12:00:00", to: "2013-05-11 12:00:06" }}.
You can do it exactly like that, I was just not sure (personal opinion) that it would be very useful if no-one is going to actually search for this kind of data here. But I may be wrong.
Spoiler: I will add the possibilities for people to create communities to discuss these kind of stuff, people might create one for Stock infos, another for meteorology, etc. And they will decide what they focus on, the formats, etc. Because at the end of the day, I'm not gonna be the judge of any of that.
Closing Github issues, as we got a brand new website (with discussions) to play with: http://thebigdb.com/ !