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Hey founder here - It would be indeed great if Snowflake allowed us to preview the data. That said, if you have a Snowflake account, you can mount it and autom
by izyda 3y ago
Hey founder here -
It would be indeed great if Snowflake allowed us to preview the data. That said, if you have a Snowflake account, you can mount it and automatically get a trial (you can run arbitrary queries against it).
The data is aggregated at a weekly level, by category, merchant, and demographics. It is not single individuals' data if that is what you are after.
- RC_ITR 3y agoInteresting product - compared to competitors like SecondMeasure, what differentiates your panel/data cleaning approach vs. everyone else (since I assume the data is sourced from the same place as you competitors)?
- izyda 3y agoI am a big admirer of what Second Measure built before their acquisition. - Different data sources - More accurate (though this is of course debateable, our plan is to publish benchmarks, accuracy, transparency, etc.) but this will always be debateable - Focus on data scientists & Snowflake users (rather than a SaaS platform) Obviously, this is a very early product. The key is to join types of datasets together, while maintaining accuracy (see vision outlined here: https://magis.substack.com/p/datanomics https://magis.substack.com/p/datanomics)
- gigatexal 3y agoHow are you getting this data? Are you paying brokers for it?
- mike_d 3y agoYou keep saying that in this thread, founder of what? Snowflake?
- alberth 3y agoHow is this different that what IRI sells? Or Argus? Or the various merchant exchanges (e.g. WMX/Walmart, 8451/Kroger)? Genuinely curious.
- izyda 3y ago- IRI sells syndicate (aggregate) data on CPG sales -- individual brands in the store -- not at the merchant level (ie. Chipotle) - Kroger/Walmart sell more detailed versions of that, but for their own stores AFAIK - I am not familiar enough w/ Argus to know to be honest, but I do not see them come up for competitive intelligence use cases (which is what we are aiming for) outside of card issuers/merchant acquirers themselves. That said, we obviously have competitors. We are trying to differentiate with our data accuracy, focus on data scientists, and focus on Snowflake approach. Obviously, this is a first product: we hope to add to it. See the vision here: https://magis.substack.com/p/datanomics https://magis.substack.com/p/datanomics
- unixhero 3y agoFounder of what? It is normal to state that and to be explicit
- RIMR 3y agoFollowing the link in his bio you'll find his LinkedIn and other documentation pointing to him being a founder at Cybersyn, so it does look like he can speak for this, but it isn't surprising that we got such a vague answer since honesty would require admitting how shady this is.
- unixhero 3y agoThank you. My first thought now is that this is why we have GDPR and why it is so important.