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I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case.
[1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that come to mind.
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
I really need a great data explorer/dashboard for my postgres-based systems. I was going to use shiny but this looks really nice -- I hope the docs can be built out very soon. Can anyone comment on other competing products? In the commercial space, I like Looker but its too pricey.
Hey! I run marketing for Periscope Data, a data explorer/dashboard product. We have a lot of customers using postgres and get compared to Looker a lot. We focus on optimizing for the analyst whereas tools like Looker focus on business users. We have a lot of features for business users, but chart creation is all SQL based. Our site is here: https://www.periscopedata.com/ and if you have any questions, shoot me an ema…
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…
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We'll be providing short user training videos very soon.
As someone who is the core audience for this tool can I say that I strongly prefer clear documentation over videos? Videos are way too hard to maintain and end up being stale the minute after you post them in fast-moving projects. I can't text-search a video and I can't be linked directly to an answer in a StackOverflow response. Written documentation is vastly superior to videos in my opinion.
I really need a great data explorer/dashboard for my postgres-based systems. I was going to use shiny but this looks really nice -- I hope the docs can be built out very soon. Can anyone comment on other competing products? In the commercial space, I like Looker but its too pricey.
Hey! I run marketing for Periscope Data, a data explorer/dashboard product. We have a lot of customers using postgres and get compared to Looker a lot. We focus on optimizing for the analyst whereas tools like Looker focus on business users. We have a lot of features for business users, but chart creation is all SQL based. Our site is here: https://www.periscopedata.com/ and if you have any questions, shoot me an ema…
What's the name of this style of plot? https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c22acad6c1302c5da3236cb8e...
I believe it's called "Sankey Diagram" as denoted in the dropdown menu on the upper top left. Here is the original demo[1] from Mike Bostock, D3's author. [1]: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/
what are the supported data sources? I saw SQL tables and I imagine flat files, can you write calls to web service endpoints?
Database Support
Caravel was originally designed on top of Druid.io, but quickly broadened its scope to support other databases through the use of SqlAlchemy, a Python ORM that is compatible with most common databases[1].
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1]. I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case. [1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that…