How does it compare against Tableau/Qlik/infocaptor ?
Visualization has become commodity, it is what you do to simplify the path from data to viz is important. http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php
Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
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Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#22Congrats guys.
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#23How does it compare against Tableau/Qlik/infocaptor ? Visualization has become commodity, it is what you do to simplify the path from data to viz is important. http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php
Hey njx! I'm Brad, one of the cofounders of Reflect. We totally agree that a lot of the front end for visualization has been commoditized (although I'd argue it still gets misused pretty badly). But building all the infrastructure to support visualization is still left as "an exercise for the reader" which is where we come in!
I think that Tableau and Qlik (and QuickSite to a degree!) are great tools and they've helped make visualization and the infrastructure to do it available to people who previously didn't have it. We're extending this to any developer on the planet by using tools we are all familiar with: REST and Javascript. And since the whole internet wants to interact with visualization we're doing it at a new level of scale.
Happy to talk through the details with you, my email address is in my profile--just ping me and we can schedule some time!
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#24Seems kind of similar to https://github.com/Polychart (which unfortunately went defunct)
Hey phonon, I'm one of the cofounders at Reflect. Were you a Polychart user? Let me know if you'd like to compare Reflect to Polychart and I can get you in to kick the tires.
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#25Congrats guys.
Thanks Phuoc!
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#26How does it compare against Tableau/Qlik/infocaptor ? Visualization has become commodity, it is what you do to simplify the path from data to viz is important. http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php
Hey njx! I'm Brad, one of the cofounders of Reflect. We totally agree that a lot of the front end for visualization has been commoditized (although I'd argue it still gets misused pretty badly). But building all the infrastructure to support visualization is still left as "an exercise for the reader" which is where we come in! I think that Tableau and Qlik (and QuickSite to a degree!) are great tools and they've help…
>building all the infrastructure
What infrastructure? Some cloud BI solutions let you drop an iframe to integrate and done. Same is true for the rest apis.
Still not seeing the differentiation, however I honestly wish you success. Congrats.
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#27How does it compare against Tableau/Qlik/infocaptor ? Visualization has become commodity, it is what you do to simplify the path from data to viz is important. http://infocaptor.com/visualization-gallery.php
Hey njx! I'm Brad, one of the cofounders of Reflect. We totally agree that a lot of the front end for visualization has been commoditized (although I'd argue it still gets misused pretty badly). But building all the infrastructure to support visualization is still left as "an exercise for the reader" which is where we come in! I think that Tableau and Qlik (and QuickSite to a degree!) are great tools and they've help…
What kind of infrastructure are you talking? Do you mean storing data?
Congratulations on the launch.
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#28Congrats!
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#29Seems kind of similar to https://github.com/Polychart (which unfortunately went defunct)
Hey phonon, I'm one of the cofounders at Reflect. Were you a Polychart user? Let me know if you'd like to compare Reflect to Polychart and I can get you in to kick the tires.
I played with their demos a bit, but we use nvd3 now. (We also can't use an offsite service for this...)
Thanks for the offer though!
Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ
#30Seems kind of similar to https://github.com/Polychart (which unfortunately went defunct)
That's interesting from the standpoint of their license says "free for non commercial use" and then "for commercial use see https://polychart.com" which errors as like you said they went out of business.