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caerbannogwhite

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About caerbannogwhite

Computer engineer dressed as a stats programmer.

https://kolistat.com/

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    In reply to HackerThemAll's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659482 comment (which I think is a bit pretentious and unfair, and HN does not show my direct reply to the commen…

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    Comment #48664522

    Well done for laying that down in that way! I'm just wondering how much it would be on my side to support that, since I can see that you support cases like "count(*)" and "group by…

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    Comment #48660880

    Thank you for clarifying that! I don't think they got that and they also trusted NoScript a bit too blindly

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    Comment #48660858

    Thank you, that's quite a lot of great quality feedback! Agreed, it's not production-grade yet, and robust standard errors are the priority. HC and cluster-robust SEs are the bigge…

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    Comment #48659742

    Appreciate it, good call! I'll rename the ggsql bits and the docs to describe it as ggsql-inspired. I'll also point to ggsql for the real thing. Thanks for being kind about it!

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    Comment #48659111

    Yes, that's exactly its main purpose! I initially started because I needed a dataset browser. I work with clinical trials, so we usually get raw data files in all possible formats,…

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    Thank you! I'll add note about it

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    Comment #48658713

    First of all, nice to meet you! The honest answer is timing: the first VISUALIZE commit on my side was april 25th; ggsql-duckdb's first commit was April 23rd. So I genuinely didn't…

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    Comment #48658277

    That's exactly the inspiration! I made a post here on HN about that a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108815 My plan is to release a blog post about all VISUA…

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    Comment #48108816

    (author here) I originally started this project to solve one of my main daily issues: having to quickly check data sparse in a bunch of datasets in different file formats (.xpt, .s…

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    Comment #48093815

    Currently working on Bedevere Wise ( https://bedeverewise.app ), a browser-based SQL data viewer for the file formats still widely used by biostat / clinical-data people: SAS (sas7…