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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Thank you so much!
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Thanks for the kind words! 1. Yes, if you have specific DBs, please feel free to create an issue on Github. We're also working on opening up the DB connector ecosystem so that people can add their own. I've also opened an issue fo
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Absolutely no need to apologize, thanks for taking the time to check out our project. I have written a lot of R Markdown over the years, and I agree wholeheartedly with most of what you're saying. The R ecosystem is phenomenal. Anyone
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Good point. Late arriving data is such a challenging problem. Perhaps if you have the load date, you could condition on that. We will think about the 'snapshot the outputs' approach as well.
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   This is an excellent question, and it's one of the areas where we think we can do some pretty novel things with our approach. There are a two main cases of this idea that we have spent time thinking about. 1. Truly static report. Here,
6. 96.▲
   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Not quite yet, but I'm happy to chat: adam at evidence.dev
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   I think Posthog is more like an open source mixpanel -- you need event tracking on your website, and standard analysis of traffic, funnels, user segments etc. Evidence is aimed at a longer tail of data analysis -- you have more idiosyncrati
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Thanks! That's a super promising line of thinking. We really like how Vercel works with pull requests -- generating a preview, blocking the pr if there is a failure in the build process etc. and that's definitely where we'd l
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   by amcaskill 5y ago

   Thanks so much! Yes, definitely. We include a visualization library with the Evidence. You can write <LineChart .../> to add a line chart to your document, <Hist .../> for a histogram etc. You can see the documentation
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    Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

    263 points by amcaskill 5y ago|91 comments
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Leaflet for R is fantastic as well. It has been a while since I have used R so there might be something better now, but I have fond memories of that package. https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/map_widget.html
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Amazing! If you have any feedback, feel free to get in touch directly: adam at evidence.dev
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    That's a great question. Evidence is really a web framework (svelte kit) under the hood, and as a result you get a lot of tools for building large, multi-page reporting suites out of the box. Evidence is just much better suited to deli
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Thanks!
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of Evidence. Our goal is to build an open source BI tool that enables analysts to build professional and easy-to-use reporting and analysis without spending hours dragging and dropping in a tool like tabl
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    Show HN: SQL in Markdown for Reports and Analysis(evidence.dev)

    19 points by amcaskill 5y ago|8 comments
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    I wish he would write something similar about dashboarding tools. "The Cognitive Style of Tableau".
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    I am working on a SQL-in-markdown reporting tool called evidence. It’s feels like a markdown doc that runs SQL. https://evidence.dev/
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    by amcaskill 5y ago

    Pretty nice animation of the input & output: https://evidence.dev/
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    by amcaskill 12y ago

    Yale's endowment report offers a straightforward discussion on why they invest heavily in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital etc. TL/DR: it's the first three reasons from this article. http://investments.
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    This is what winning looks like(vice.com)

    1 points by amcaskill 13y ago|0 comments
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    Why Fox News is less to blame for polarised politics than you think(economist.com)

    2 points by amcaskill 14y ago|1 comments
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    by amcaskill 14y ago

    It's a smart PR move in either scenario. It's unlikely this will matter if he is wrong. If he is correct, this will become an even larger main stream news story and there is a good chance that his prescience will be picked up and included i
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    U.S. military suicides last year far exceed combat deaths in Afghanistan(news.nationalpost.com)

    8 points by amcaskill 14y ago|3 comments
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    by amcaskill 14y ago

    Stratfor isn't really a news media company like the times or a tv station. IIRC they sell analysis & forecasting services to governments and large corporations. The author of this article wrote a book called The Next 100 Years which is
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    Intrade closes to U.S. Residents(intrade.com)

    8 points by amcaskill 14y ago|1 comments
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    by amcaskill 14y ago

    NPR did a podcast on exactly that. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/12/162740623/gangnam-...