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by thingsilearned 2y ago
I've tried this several times too and still do phone less days quite often thanks to the watch, but my big obstacle has been the lack of Uber/Lyft which I use instead of having a car. They used to have those apps on the watch but
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by thingsilearned 2y ago
Perhaps more importantly than a mental model for thinking about this you might need the right mental state. You're tired and not seeing a path forward. That leads to burnout fast and isn't a great space to make big decisions fro
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by thingsilearned 2y ago
For those of you in the Bay Area there’s a great Kintsugi workshop that’s run out of the SF zen center almost weekly https://stonegoldcrafts.com/ I got into Kintsugi when my toilet needed repair. It’s a rewarding craft ht
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by thingsilearned 3y ago
The article really focused on doing this in Yellowstone, and all the problems we'd have there. I noticed the second hottest spot on the map is Southern California - which has the benefits of being a desert and close to major populatio
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by thingsilearned 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chatgpt
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by thingsilearned 4y ago
This linter can really enforce some best practices https://github.com/sqlfluff/sqlfluff A list of best practices: https://docs.getdbt.com/guides/legacy/best-practices And shameless plug but t
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by thingsilearned 4y ago
+1. Historically we’ve had to really bring order to nature in order to efficiently make food. In the future there’s an opportunity (with drones, ai, robots, etc) to instead harvest from the wild. It’d never be near as efficient but would
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by thingsilearned 5y ago
would love to participate!
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by thingsilearned 5y ago
We've definitely gone much deeper in this version with data modelling. This book though is to be clear (and that's in the first about sections) does not have much on product/event based analytics nor giant scale data as judge
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by thingsilearned 5y ago
Thanks! It was definitely a long time in the works!
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We need new data books, so we published one(theinformedcompany.com)
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by thingsilearned 5y ago
100% here. We need to drop old terms and methods that are now obsolete.
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
We don't work with rest calls - just directly with databases and SQL, but do take a look at chartio.com! We aim to make it as fast and agile as possible to make and collaborate on charts and dashboards with your team.
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
Great writeup here but I have a question on whether Product Analytics is at all appropriate for Startups. I'm incredibly biased (this problem is why I built Chartio), but I think these tools end up being quite bulky, expensive and a n
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
Dave from Chartio here: we've just launched a complete re-write and extension of our visualization library with many more settings, maps, customizations and updated themes. We're now iterating quite quickly on expanding and improv
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Show HN: All new charts from Chartio(chartio.com)
3 points by thingsilearned 6y ago|1 comments
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Build a modern data analytics stack from scratch in under an hour(hashpath.com)
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Chartio (YC S10) is hiring sr product Designers, Managers and Engineers(chartio.com)
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Show HN: A Better SQL IDE(chartio.com)
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
I've had similar thoughts to the title, but my ideas were more around improving the ease of use/writing. 1. A cleaner universal more natural syntax for analytics: I love writing python as it is to me such a cleaner syntax than C o
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DataBricks Launches Cluster Policies(databricks.com)
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
I've been fairly productive especially in the first few months of lockdown. 1. Chart based commenting system for Chartio https://chartio.com/blog/charts-worth-commenting-on/ 2. Helping the https://
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Intro to ML: Course Overview(youtube.com)
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Design a Dashboard Example(dataschool.com)
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
+1 here. Figma's collaboration features are also just incredible so many people can participate simultaneously, and make copies w/ their own versions. We've got ours also well setup with a big library of assets like buttons,
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Fishtown Analytics (DBT) Announces $12.9M Fundraise(blog.getdbt.com)
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by thingsilearned 6y ago
Dave, founder of Chartio here. With so many of our customers working remote we realized that we needed to prioritize our collaboration features and worked long hours to get this out. We're really excited about how this came out - like
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Show HN: Discuss data with chart-level comments(chartio.com)
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Thanks, the user-research-first part was definitely enlightening and important to do. Our first many iterations were very wrong. As for large scale datasets - we do cache those sample tables and we only grab the first 10 rows. Also, BigQu
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
I wish I could say that we had that insight from the beginning and that it worked right away, but we ended up failing into that realization after a lot of designs and prototypes. So what you describe is somewhat built in to what we have now

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