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I don't really get it. Disclosure that I work at Looker which is an analytics company, though not really in the same space as Mixpanel. But I'm just confused about this latest tren…

Totally agree and the "write-only" nature of SQL is something that makes me crazy. Sounds like you're more of a dev. I'm an analyst, but same problem. For any analytic SQL I wrote …

Agree that it's only one part of the data lifecycle, but if you don't have your own team of engineers to build all those connectors, you can't even get to the point of being able t…

As somebody who works on a data exploration platform (Looker I can't tell you how many potential customers are crazily excited about the idea of centralizing the data that all thei…

That's kind of a broad question, but in theory, for sure. Once you've got the raw data in your own warehouse, you can roll up at any level of specificity. So that could be per sale…

I don't really agree. I mean, yeah, comprehensiveness is great, and it sounds like Segment is working towards it. But every integration they build is one less custom integration th…

Thanks endlessvoid94 :-) (disclosure: work at Looker and totally agree)

I'm a huge proponent of the idea of centralizing the data model. That's the core idea behind Looker (where I just came to work after 3 years as a customer), and I agree it's a huge…

Not arguing that Airbnb should use Looker, but fwiw, Looker (where I work) does in fact connect to Presto fine.

That's correct. We (I work at Looker) are written to leverage the analytical capabilities of SQL. So we support all kinds of SQL implementations, from totally standard (PG, MySQL, …

It's worth distinguishing between the tools that leave the data in your data warehouse (Caravel, Periscope, Mode, Looker (where I work)), and those that have their own data stores …

Really depends on your needs. There are lots of options out there that are happy to talk to Postgres, but each has different strengths and weaknesses. If all you need is a way to b…

Can't speak for Airbnb, but I'm not sure that any of the front-end clients that you mentioned (disclosure: I work at Looker), can talk to Druid. So if Airbnb already had a Druid wa…

Yup, Looker is a Premier Partner for the GCP launch ( https://cloud.google.com/partners/?q=Looker#search ). And then we (I work at Looker) are specifically partnering with GCP for …

Looks like the data goes up through 2015-10-13. I created a Look (disclosure: work for Looker) that shows story counts by day for the last 365 days here: https://looker.com/publicd…

Looker is powering all the iframes (any 404s should be fixed now). Bigquery is hosting the data, but Looker is generating the queries and visualizations of the data.

And if you've got public data in BigQuery that you want to make explorable/shareable/visualizable to anybody (no SQL required), let Looker know and we'll see what we can do. (discl…

Great to see folks digging into this. Looker (where I work) is what you're seeing visualize and make the underlying datasets explorable. Our founder did a great blog post explainin…