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We have been using something like this based on Blockly in production for over seven years now to build dashboards. GIF demo: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content
by misterdata 6y ago
We have been using something like this based on Blockly in production for over seven years now to build dashboards. GIF demo: https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif https://www.dialogic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/demo1.gif
Our users (researchers) had no problems learning the concepts of querying but didn't want to be bothered learning SQL syntax - hence we built this (also, our system does quite a bit of magic behind the scenes to allow mixing e.g. CSV data with data from a database, and also allows for things not easily done in SQL, e.g. pivot tables, so it's not just SQL).
- mmsimanga 6y agoAs someone who works in BI I am mighty impressed! I don't think I have seen a tool pack as much power in a fairly easy to follow manner. My 8 year older daughter picked up Scratch[0] after the briefest of intros. You application reminds of Scratch. [0]https://scratch.mit.edu https://scratch.mit.edu
- leeuw01 6y agoProbably it's made with the same technology used to build Scratch, namely Blocky (https://github.com/google/blockly https://github.com/google/blockly)
- dopidopHN 6y agoyeah I recognize the UI from Scratch. The puzzle pieces representing logic and state look the same. It's cool to see it being used elsewhere. Is that coffee exemple from the GIF above a production screenshot? It looks very demo-i
- misterdata 6y agoYes, the demo was definitely made using the production system! (Although usually our ‘puzzles’ are quite a bit more complicated than this simple coffee example. Although more often than you expect, simply publishing a small CSV with a bit of filtering is sufficient!)
- misterdata 6y agoCorrect!
- thunderbong 6y agoIs this gif using BlockySQL? Doesn't look like it though, since there are many more options available. And it looks more powerful than BlocklySQL. Is the source available?