Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
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Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
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Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#2Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data.
Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data domain.
Feedback welcome. Ask me anything.
Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#3Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
Any way your web page could be made viewable without requiring Javascript?
I disable it in my web browsers because of security and privacy concerns, and it would be great if I could just read about your project without it.
Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#4Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
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Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#5Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
This is a really impressive project. Do you think you would add data cleaning commands? How do you think you would handle datasets that are only available to academics or other restrictions?
On your front page you should have the owner/dataset name instead of just the dataset name so I wouldn't have to click through to find the owner name.
Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#6Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
This is pretty neat! Is there an API or anything, so we can write support for other languages?
Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#7Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
This looks pretty cool. Am I right to understand that this is providing a virtualized filesystem interface that dynamically loads the slices of data actually being accessed (but through a direct API rather than something generic like FUSE)?
Unrelated I found a typo on your blog. Search for "seriailize" on your "Manage data like source code" post.
Re: Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
#8Hi, I'm one of the founders of Quilt Data (YCW16). We built Quilt to bring package management to data. The goal is to create a community of versioned, reusable building blocks of data, so that analysts can spend more time analyzing and less time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Our general inspiration is to create a new kind of data warehouse based on code management practices that haven't yet reached the data…
Do you plan to curate the free plans? If not, how will you prevent abuse? (thinking in terms of both the service and its users)
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#9Is there an option to be able to sign up using Github? That would make life much easier for me.
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#10Thanks for releasing. Looks useful and aligned with several projects I've worked on.
The first thing I looked for was a canonical package / resource specification in build.py. Any chance supporting Frictionless data resource spec for interop?