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5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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Different audience / use case. I've noticed that products often lean towards speaking to app builders (full stack swe's) or data builders (data analysts / scientists / data en…
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Surprised nobody in this thread mentioned "How Big Things Get Done". Fantastic read that talks about the challenges of big projects when they don't bring on the right people with existi…
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Yeah computation has more layers and sellers, it's not a perfect analogy but good enough I feel
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Brilliant move by Microsoft. You want to be the one selling shovels during a gold rush, as they say?
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Honestly it's so hard to compare Tableau and Superset. Tableau has every feature and bell / whistle imagine-able. But it's heavy, desktop oriented, and pricey. Superset is lightweight a…
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Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark, ECharts, and many others are still going strong! It really depends on the project to be honest.
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This might be what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGfUIOK87V8
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Metabase is a bit more user-friendly to be honest than Superset. Superset has a WAY more liberal license, so it's ideal for people who want to customize Superset and build data apps.
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Well Redash got acquired so development stopped, biggest difference between Superset & Redash. Preset.io supports Superset still
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No built-in thick semantic layer, compared to Looker. I wrote about Superset's semantic layer here: https://preset.io/blog/understanding-superset-semantic-layer... One popul…
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I love Grafana but Grafana doesn't really support non-time-series visualization that well.
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Donald Braben's book touches on what's changed pretty well I felt (published by Stripe press too): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal... …
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+1 to this, I was also there and it was lots of fun
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As with anything physical, start small and slowly increase! 10 or 20 lbs is enough to feel some pain, try it for an hour. Then 1.5 hours. Then increase the weight, and so on. Humans have evolved to ca…