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by kfk 6y ago
I am surprised GitHub project kanbans don’t get more attention. They are easy to setup, great for tracking activities and allow “threaded” discussions inside each issue. Why would you use Slack for your team if you have GitHub with this fr
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by kfk 6y ago
I continue to be confused about AWS offerings other than their EC2 and data storage (S3/Redshift/Spectrum/Aurora) solutions which are undoubtedly amazing products. The thing with Workflow scheduling and orchestration is that
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by kfk 6y ago
I started my team thanks to Alteryx but happily moved all to Python a year later. UIs are terrible for change management, versioning and documentation. Once you have a big-ish team doing data work UIs will become a significant drag on colla
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by kfk 6y ago
What is the best practice to ship the compiled data to an rdbms from your platform? I am asking because you list data science in your use cases and most data from analytics jobs ends in a database eventually
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by kfk 6y ago
There are various types of assets people can invest on, stock is a type of asset. If people fear an economic collapse they'll move their money to commodities, gold, whatever. It's not a zero sum game, investors are trying to optim
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by kfk 6y ago
It becomes technical debt if you are focusing on the app, but if you are focusing on the data Retool has very little impact on your debt. You should still be processing and managing data with sql or python version controlled on git. What Re
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by kfk 6y ago
Alteryx files are xml files but the point is change management is hard to do. You need to compare each single element in the UI to understand what was changed between versions. It's a lot like Excel in that regard.
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by kfk 6y ago
Alteryx was my first step into analytics and it helped me get 2 heads funded for my team. But yeah at some point I arrived to your same conclusion and moved my team to python, we never looked back. One thing people don’t realize with these
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by kfk 6y ago
Why only ML and DS? Do you see any gaps in building business apps in general?
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by kfk 6y ago
I was thinking 2 things could be better done with react: reactivity and server load due to more client requests to manage. Not sure what else. Server load is pretty high on Tableau too so not sure that’s a real problem.
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by kfk 6y ago
I can’t read your article as Medium says I reached my quota. I manage an analytics team and I am pretty annoyed with most dashboard tool out there (Tableau, PowerBI, etc), so I have been extending our internal python grizly library with ser
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by kfk 6y ago
Market growth that typically has high error margins precise to the decimal... I am with you and I would not give too much credit to Excel in 2020 and I used to work in finance. I think what people don’t realize is that code forces you to fo
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by kfk 6y ago
How does duckdb compare to aws athena or spectrum? Both services offer sql directly on parquet files. I guess you would say duckdb is not distributed but if you create one on time when the user needs to run the sql on the parquet you’d be i
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by kfk 6y ago
Shopify, Salesforce, Etc
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by kfk 6y ago
It looks good, depending on your target market I would put more emphasis on integrating with other data sources. Your tool also overlaps with other industries like viz/dashboards. Finally I like sql and JavaScript or Python, I am sayin
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by kfk 6y ago
In big companies I just don’t see the point of Slack over MS Teams as they are quite similar and Teams is very low friction as it integrates with the rest of Office 365. Slack has better API and that’s great but what would be other serious
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by kfk 6y ago
Data science and ML In big companies are pulling resources away from the real value add activities like proper data integrity, blending sources, improving speed performance. Yes Business Intelligence is not cool anymore. Yes I also call my
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by kfk 6y ago
Yeah and that’s even more important in enterprise where software vendors could lock you in and put your features requests or bugs in some “ideas” queue and leave it there for years. Or when software vendors cripple your data strategy by clo
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by kfk 6y ago
Feel free to email me
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by kfk 6y ago
Do you have any plans around QnA functionalities? Enterprise users send me a lot of emails and it would be great to be able to promote some of the answers from me or my team to a knowledge base. Users could also send new questions from your
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by kfk 6y ago
Some of the ideas are good but it’s more interesting if it processes files like RDS Spectrum does vs loading first to Postgres. I know you are targeting smallish datasets but eventually data size will go up and loading everything in PG coul
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by kfk 6y ago
I think containers, orchestration, nomad. Apps in the cloud decouple storage, security. The real “app” is an ephemeral container
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by kfk 6y ago
Well I was going to say that Salesforce is a great example of something that sold well initially but it has mostly been a disappointment. Salesforce has been telling managers that "apps" are the way to go while the real value driv
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by kfk 6y ago
They might be able to build systems for small teams but they can't scale them to organizations. These "apps" get stuck soon on change management, data, integrations, etc.. You might make money on short term as people get exci
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by kfk 6y ago
I think comments here are missing the point. Integrations are complicated and expensive and this is a small step in making this easier. It competes with the likes of zapier, blendoo and stichdata. The fact that ms, fb, apple and google are
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by kfk 6y ago
Have you checked Vega? Not as easy to build charts but it’s al done via json which can in theory be changed programmatically
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by kfk 6y ago
Don’t you think the big challenge is creating and managing events? Once the graph is built you can throw it at something like dask with fire and forget. The challenge is WHEN to run.
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by kfk 6y ago
What do these do? I am constantly told by IT we need data catalogues, they talk about it, they invest money, but I have never seen the results. Me and my team keep most metadata info of tables in json files, not pretty but at least I can se
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by kfk 6y ago
In terms of connecting to data sources I would rather decouple the querying and security layer. Companies are going to be focusing more and more on integrations. So if we have an integration layer in rest or graphql it would make building c
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by kfk 6y ago
I think projects are dying because most projects are products in disguise and with products you need the entire team, not just a business analyst or pm, to be able to talk to the end users. Ask yourself why most projects end up with adoptio

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