oliver101

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by oliver101 3y ago
> YAML, pivoting being done in the frontend, no symmetric aggregates (one of the maintainers of Lightdash) You touched on some of our most interesting problems here! Would be especially interested to hear about what you liked / didn
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Is GitHub a worthy alternative to Jira?(lightdash.com)
4 points by oliver101 3y ago|0 comments
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Lightdash takes on Looker with an open source BI platform built for dbt(techcrunch.com)
20 points by oliver101 4y ago|2 comments
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by oliver101 5y ago
We're building support for dbt cloud users right now. Using dbt locally has allowed us to piggy-back on dbt's query runner and we're having to build that ourselves to support dbt cloud. This should roll out in the next 2 week
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by oliver101 5y ago
Thanks! With Hubble, we realised that while some companies wanted a separate tool to monitor data quality (e.g. data governance teams in financial integrations) most modern data teams want to test inside their existing code base (e.g. dbt).
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by oliver101 5y ago
Hey HN, We're really excited to release the first public version of Lightdash! Lightdash is an open source alternative to looker that lets analysts define data transformations and metrics in one place. Lightdash gives analysts a BI pla
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Show HN: Lightdash – An open source Looker alternative(github.com)
34 points by oliver101 5y ago|5 comments
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by oliver101 5y ago
Hey all! Wrote a simple CLI tool that converts dbt models into looker view files. Once you've built your dbt project, run dbt2looker and copy the files over to looker. Features: - Auto-generates a Looker view per dbt model - Supports d
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Show HN: Generate LookML views from DBT models automatically(github.com)
1 points by oliver101 5y ago|1 comments
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Dataform (YC W18) is joining Google Cloud(dataform.co)
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by oliver101 6y ago
Hey HN! Just had a new hire join the team and we had a sprint to release a slack app we were using internally. We call it Beacon. It hooks up to your data warehouse or transactional db and allows you to query and access the latest data righ
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Show HN: Beacon – Write and share SQL queries live in slack(blog.gethubble.io)
4 points by oliver101 6y ago|1 comments
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by oliver101 6y ago
Same experience but reverted to Mac because the hardware is unbeatable. Had MacBooks since the white clamshells and eventually wanted to go full linux. So bought the X1 Carbon and really regretted it. Screen and trackpad were by far the wor
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by oliver101 6y ago
I saw that but couldn't square it with the earlier sentence. In my previous role we interviewed tens of small business owners and nobody knew what was in their docs. I hope insurance companies will be as bold to go beyond simplifying l
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by oliver101 6y ago
> Most of the UK's biggest insurance companies produce policies that explain everything fully in plain English. Is this an argument in favour of plain English? Insurance policy documents are incredibly hard to understand and full of
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by oliver101 6y ago
Why is "doing software engineering" not "doing science"? Anybody who has conducted experimental research will say they spent 80% of the time using a hammer or a spanner. Repairing faulty lasers or power supplies. This pr
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by oliver101 6y ago
Yes we can run the whole stack on-prem. We realised very early that on-prem would be needed for many users. So we've made it easy to spin up Hubble in a k8s cluster in your cloud or on bare metal.
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by oliver101 6y ago
Metadata is a valuable place for finding information like load times, rows inserted / updated. Currently we just rely on read-access and raw SQL. A common way users are doing this now (and we are internally for our analytics data) is u
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by oliver101 6y ago
Yes, we store the historical value of each test so you can always scroll back through time and see the state of the data warehouse at any given point. For example, if you have a test that counts the number of rows "COUNT(*)" - tha
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by oliver101 6y ago
Yeah we called this project hubble long before we were worried about SEO. Actually, the name does relate back to Edwin Hubble. We previously worked together on an internal data tool called Telescope (it was used for annotating medical image
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by oliver101 6y ago
Thanks! We love DBT and take a lot of inspiration from their work. We’re putting a lot of effort into suggesting the right tests based on the data types, sources, and field names. A lot of these tests are pretty repetitive to write so we wa
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by oliver101 6y ago
Full table scans can get expensive. We’re adding support for incremental tests so for append-only tables you’ll only test the recent rows. This is especially useful if you use partitioned tables in bigquery. Actually in the first version of
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Launch HN: Hubble (YC S20) – Monitor data quality inside data warehouses
125 points by oliver101 6y ago|42 comments
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by oliver101 6y ago
> This is the crux of the AI business dilemma. If the economics are a function of the problem – not the technology per se – how can we improve them? The article focusses on the costs of resources to build a model (annotated data + comput
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Adventures in Improving AI Economics(a16z.com)
249 points by oliver101 6y ago|75 comments
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by oliver101 6y ago
Ok I admit, the blank keycaps are just to look cool. > I have kind of un-learned Qwerty. When I have to go to someone else's machine at work (game dev studio) to diagnose a crash, Qwerty feels very foreign and I look like an idiot w
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by oliver101 6y ago
After 20 years of QWERTY I could sort-of touch type but it’s very hard to unlearn bad habits and position your hands properly. The best decision I made was to switch to DVORAK. I was very unproductive for about a month. Training involved bl