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It looks like a plain html page but requires JS to view anything except: "Please enable JavaScript to use this site." What a wonderful time to live in. Anyway,
by stewbrew 9y ago
It looks like a plain html page but requires JS to view anything except: "Please enable JavaScript to use this site." What a wonderful time to live in.
Anyway, do I get this right: They expect users to be experts in data analysis but not being able to load the data into whatever software they use? They want me to share data and to offload my data into their walled garden that can be accessed only via their service? If I wanted to share my data, wouldn't I rather use something more accessible?
- eternauta3k 9y ago> If I wanted to share my data, wouldn't I rather use something more accessible? Still, it's good inspiration. Maybe I'll make a github repo with my city's open datasets loaded into python.
- akarve 9y agoThere are some important differences from git: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14772036
- noobermin 9y agoI know git is not great with binaries, but wouldn't just a git repo be a better start for what you want?
- akarve 9y agoIt's not about people not being able to load their data, but about accelerating the loading with serialization and about whether or not people want to focus on data cleaning, or have the cleaning done once and then available for posterity. Quilt is, in my view, as open as git or GitHub. The de/serialization code is all open source, and uses an open format (Parquet). Parquet is accessible (and more optimal than text files) for things like Presto DB, Hive, etc.