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Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by cornell_io »

mazameli wrote: post #77
seveibar wrote: post #13

Postgres -> Metabase I believe this is the best combination of cheap/powerful for early-stage startups. My very non-technical cofounder is able to use metabase's simple GUI interface to create graphs/insights (even joining and aggregating across tables!), and for anything complex I can step in a give a helper SQL query. We have around 10M records we aggregate around for daily insights. Metabase can also be run as a p…

UX guy from Metabase here. Glad to hear it's working well for you. Happy to answer any questions folks might have.

nice job

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by elwell »

On a meta note, if you're interested in viewing & sharing stacks, that's the primary feature of the startup I'm working on: Vetd (app.vetd.com). The communities we host (often VC portfolio companies) share their stacks and leverage for discounts.

- CTO (chris at vetd.com)

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by chrisjc »

elwell wrote: post #112

On a meta note, if you're interested in viewing & sharing stacks, that's the primary feature of the startup I'm working on: Vetd (app.vetd.com). The communities we host (often VC portfolio companies) share their stacks and leverage for discounts. - CTO (chris at vetd.com)

What does this have to do with BI stacks?

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by elwell »

chrisjc wrote: post #113
elwell wrote: post #112

On a meta note, if you're interested in viewing & sharing stacks, that's the primary feature of the startup I'm working on: Vetd (app.vetd.com). The communities we host (often VC portfolio companies) share their stacks and leverage for discounts. - CTO (chris at vetd.com)

What does this have to do with BI stacks?

Companies using our platform add all sorts of items to their stack, including BI tools/services.

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by elwell »

thunderbong wrote: post #81

After reading the comments here, I decided to give Metabase[0] a shot. Awesome analysis tool. Very impressed. Works even with large SQLite databases. [0]: https://www.metabase.com/

Being a Clojure [0] team, we naturally use Metabase as well. Analyzing a Postgres data warehouse input from Segment, as well as our production db.

[0] - https://github.com/metabase/metabase

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by crustacean »

crustacean wrote: post #45

Sorry to be that one avoids-the-question comment, but: Without design sessions to figure out your data store design (look up Kimball, Immon), and then monitoring/testing to make sure everything is running smoothly, any data stack will be hell. Badly designed data brings fatigue and rancor and unnecessary work and is a huge hard-to-quantify money suck.

Edit: *Inmon

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by chrisjc »

elwell wrote: post #114
chrisjc wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this have to do with BI stacks?

Companies using our platform add all sorts of items to their stack, including BI tools/services.

Nice. So you do hypothetically provide a stack similar to

    Fivetran -> Snowflake -> Looker

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by kfk »

Python, Redshift, Tableau. But if you are starting from scratch I’d suggest to focus on the etl piece with python and send pdf reports generated with latex. Too many people get distracted by the fancy reporting stuff and don’t do the 2 things that matter: good etl with good sql db; analytics that is tied to results the company cares about

Re: Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?

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Post by thingsilearned »

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 top of. It's an open book so we're always looking for suggestions and experiences such as those shared here.

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