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by aarondia 4y ago
Yes
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by aarondia 4y ago
Well first of off, thank you, I put a lot of effort into implementing that landing page :) We're super focused on the open source offering. The vast majority of our users are on the open source version and the vast majority of the feat
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by aarondia 4y ago
Mito is licensed [1] under the AGPL liscence. The TLDR of the license is that you can use, distribute, and modify Mito for free, but any modifications that you make need to be shared back with the Mito community. There is an additional vers
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by aarondia 4y ago
That's a cool idea! One helpful .head() function could include the most unique data typed data. It could help you identify which columns have mixed dtypes: mostly numbers, and some cells that are supposed to be numbers but are actually
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by aarondia 4y ago
You should be good to go with your conda setup on windows! I run Mito on a windows machine through a conda virtual environment often! We have some instructions for how to do that here [1] [1] https://docs.trymito.io/getting-
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by aarondia 4y ago
Heyo, one of the Mito creators here. Thanks for sharing Datasette. I haven't seen that one before. It looks neat! You're right though, there are several tools that fit the general shape of: GUI on top of Jupyter on top of Python.
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by aarondia 4y ago
Thanks for posting!
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by aarondia 4y ago
One of the creators of Mito, here. Thanks for your feedback. I wanted to share a couple of nuggets about Mito that have been helpful in talking about this with other users. 1. The core Mito product is open source. You can see our GitHub her
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by aarondia 4y ago
This is a great point and something that we're actively working on improving in Mito. If you have millions of rows of data, its not enough to just scroll through your data, you need tools to build your understanding. Some of the tools
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by aarondia 4y ago
Yeah, Mito is limited to the Jupyter ecosystem (for now). We want to expand to VSCode, Google Collab, and Streamlit! For the time being, because Mito generates pandas code for every edit you make, you can always use Mito in Jupyter to gener
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by aarondia 4y ago
Heyo, Mito cofounder here, bridging that gap is one of the main ways that enterprises are using Mito today! Helping business users become data self-sufficient in a world where Excel's data size limitations make it a non-option is where
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by aarondia 4y ago
Thanks for that feedback. Mito's approach to telemetry is that we never log any of your data or metadata about your data. We don't track things like the size, shape, or content of your data. We do collect info about app usage, thi
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by aarondia 4y ago
Heyo! Another co-founder here. Excited to see Mito on HN :) Thanks @alefnula for posting! +1 to everything @narush said. It's important to us that the software we build is empowering to users and not restrictive. This plays out in two
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by aarondia 4y ago
Hey, I'm one of the founders of Mito ( https://www.trymito.io/ ). This is a super interesting perspective. I agree with a lot of your thoughts and wanted to respond to a few in particular. > They also happen to be utt
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by aarondia 4y ago
In the spirit of dreams and poetry: __________________ Spreadsheets are my desired cuisine. Excel the dish I adore. But fill it up with too many ingredients, and you’ll find Excel on the floor. It happens all the more frequent now, as my gr
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Ask HN: Examples of Well-Documented UIs?
3 points by aarondia 4y ago|2 comments
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by aarondia 5y ago
A lot of comments here point to users eventually running up against the boundaries of no/low-code environments and having to make the decision to graduate from them or push their limits to a place where they were really not intended to
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by aarondia 5y ago
I think it’s a cliche at this point, but what has really been helpful for me is setting boundaries. I used to do some work 7 days a week, trying to do less on the weekends. But because I didn’t have strict guidelines, I would have anxiety t
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by aarondia 5y ago
I can attest first hand to how great Plotly is. I'm building Mito[1], an interactive spreadsheet that converts every edit you make into the equivalent Python code, it's also a Jupyter extension. We use Plotly for all of our visual
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Spreadsheet enabled notebooks: the ultimate REPL tool(trymito.io)
3 points by aarondia 5y ago|1 comments
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by aarondia 5y ago
Sorry for just getting back to this, but yes it is! Almost nobody picks up on it, so color me impressed.
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by aarondia 5y ago
I've been reading about D3 and am thinking about integrating it into my React project. But I've come across a number of posts that discuss how React & D3 don't play nicely together because they both manipulate the DOM. [1
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by aarondia 5y ago
Glad to hear you're a fan! You're right, Mito is not designed to cover all of Excel's use cases. Mito focuses on rectangular datasets that fit nicely into a pandas dataframe ... at least for now. So the types of use cases tha
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by aarondia 5y ago
One example is https://www.pyxll.com/ which lets you write Excel Add-ins using Python. I've never used it myself, but I have tried to use the Excel JS API, and it was quite a pain.
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by aarondia 5y ago
After talking with Excel users for the past year to understand what makes it such a ubiquitous tool, I don't think that its the ability to write complex formulas, but instead the reactive, visual environment (read: IDE). Of course, for
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by aarondia 5y ago
This year was a great experiment in person hygiene. It was the healthiest I have ever been for a full year, no colds, stomach bugs, anything. I'm not sure which practices I'll continue, but its definitely shown me that I have wayy
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by aarondia 5y ago
+1 to Nielsen Norman. Whenever I'm doing any design work, I always look for their recommendations first. They have the best UX guidance that I've been able to find. Most other resources I've found focus more on styling (fonts
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by aarondia 6y ago
I've been working on/with spreadsheet users (and some hardcore spreadsheet financial models) for the past 1.5 years - and I like to think about spreadsheets as a reactive, visual (and 2d!), _functional_ programming language. Excep
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by aarondia 6y ago
When I receive an html email, I default to thinking there is nothing of value in it, and I don't read it. I use email as a more formal text messaging, or often group text messaging, system. Marketing newsletters, etc are just a clutter
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by aarondia 6y ago
They were the first newsletter that my friends and coworkers consistently read, although I never got hooked. They speak in the tone that appeals to college students, and on the topics that they are all starting careers in.

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