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I am building Jig (based on observable): https://www.jigdev.com https://www.jigdev.com Because I believe that BI should be done by people who have a mixed set

by d--b 5y ago

I am building Jig (based on observable): https://www.jigdev.com https://www.jigdev.com Because I believe that BI should be done by people who have a mixed set of skills between stats and programming. A programmer alone can’t make the stats, and a mathematician can’t build a reporting tool. Jig is a shortcut to build reports quickly, but I am somehow convinced by javascript is just not good enough to do that job. I think I might have to try and design a language that has indexed containers as first class objects…

b9a2cab5 5y ago
In my experience BI has no business being done by technical people. You need business people who are just technical enough to use the system for what they need. You need domain knowledge and deep product understanding to know what data to be looking for, not a stats and CS whiz. In 99% of cases, SQL backed by a fast distributed analytics database and Tableau+Excel is enough for that. Even as a software engineer doing basic analytics charts for the service I own I don't want to be writing JavaScript. Ideally I wouldn't be writing SQL either.