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by thingsilearned 7y ago
We do compete very directly with Tableau and are often used along side it as well. In the article I explain a lot of what's different about it from other BI products like Tableau. The main things are - it's way more flexible as
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yes we do require a work email to signup as our target audiences are businesses. We've discussed launching a public version which I'd love to have sometime soon.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
It's free to download on dataschool.com. I agree on the gap and that's why we wrote this book. We launched that on HN here 5 months ago https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yes it does
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Thanks! Hadn't noticed that the icon was mirrored, thanks for pointing it out!
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yes, right now it's part of Chartio. I'd love to eventually open it outside of that, but there are no immediate plans.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
No, sorry that's a marketing/sales team decision. I'll talk with them about it.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
We do have a reverse SSH tunnel connection https://chartio.com/docs/data-sources/tunnel-connection/
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
So the agile world of data we're looking to bring about is one where your DAO or marts, are still regular schemas - not just flat tables or cubes. So the developer teams would be creating these mart schemas, and then business users co
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Oh awesome! I haven't heard of SQL bucket but I'll check that out as I love anything that encourages SQL based modeling. I was writing my own and then DBT came out and we push people there primarily. Send me a note - dave-at-ch
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Ah yeah, you do have to signup to try it out (though it does start you off with demo data). We wanted to offer a non-login version but it makes things more complicated for a company that obviously needs to prioritize security highly. This
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Ha, sorry about that! Are you talking about the interface, the idea, or the content?!
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
I fully agree with your experience here. We have a super hard mission at Chartio - it's not just about the interface but also how the data is setup. The interface, being as flexible as it is and also enabling full schema (instead of
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
No idea. Thanks for reporting. We'll look into it
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Totally - it's not a solution to everything. We can though do as much as possible making the UI intuitive, flexible and fast. Those gains are not just for business users but for everyone. Every product needs some education (excel is
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yes we are! No plans to go on-prem yet but security is obviously a giant focus and necessity https://chartio.com/product/security/
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yup - if you grab columns from multiple different connected tables (or schemas) the join will happen automatically for you and can be adjusted to different paths. This is actually a really hard problem, especially since 70% of datasources
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Sigma and Chartio have similar missions but a very different product approach and functionality. Sigma also tries to bring the influence of spreadsheets into the query building/data exploration phase. We do this though as a very flexi
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yeah we're somewhat targeting a different audience here but I also think this will end up being a much better experience even for the power users than an IDE. I believe most data exploration just shouldn't be SQL/text based.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
To be clear - this isn't about making visualizations from SQL results (though that does happen). This was us making a visual query language. It's a very flexible interface that writes SQL for you - and has been proven to be intu
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
I appreciate the feedback. We are discussing a few different pricing models, and if your team size is below the 5 seat minimum you can reach out and we're quite flexible there.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Ah, unfortunately there isn't. We're 100% cloud hosted - though we call ourselves a Hybrid cloud solution because through our reverse SSH tunnel connections (where your servers SSH into ours) we also work well with on-prem data.
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yeah - changing date formats, double typing things you're grouping and ordering by, remembering the oddities of each dialect, typing out full join paths - it's a nice experience to have that done automatically. Right now the SQL w
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Dave, founder of Chartio here. We're so excited to launch what we call Visual SQL today. It's been a lot of work based on customer feedback and extensive prototyping and user testing. If you'd rather skip the story attache
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Show HN: Visual SQL(chartio.com)
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Announcing the Dbt IDE(blog.getdbt.com)
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Chartio (YC S10) Is Hiring Engineers and an Engineering Manager in SF(jobs.lever.co)
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
If you're already doing engineering work you may be able to just go get a job focusing on data - if you're upfront about wanting to learn. I've found most people have learned the skills on the job. Besides the books mention
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Dave from Chartio here, wanting to share our new book describing the 4 stages of setting up your ideal data stack here - https://dataschool.com/data-governance/ . It covers BI a bit, but mostly the stack that BI sits on
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by thingsilearned 7y ago
Yes, and also the whole process is much simpler to pull the T out. The reason T had to be done at the same time as E&L was because of those storage and performance costs. Now you don't have to - and it separates the stages and si

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