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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

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Post by vegabook »

honestly is this what passes for "data visualization" with these guys? A weekly stacked area chart?? You've been able to do this in Excel for 30 years. It worked fine on a 386. Where's the progress here..

Data visualization is about multi-gig, possibly streaming data sets, and crucially, parsing the data, probably in real time, for the crucial 1-2% of it that's actually interesting, and helping user find them. Not putting a thin SASS wrapper on stone age graphics whose underlying data size is probably measured in kilobytes

This thing looks like a charting service. Not "data visualization".

Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

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Post by phonon »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #30
phonon wrote: post #19

Seems 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.

Yeah, you can see an archived version of the site here

https://web.archive.org/web/20150908004847/https://www.polyc...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213349/https://www.polyc...

(video still works! http://play.vidyard.com/aDsHgEC9IPpqN52MfmpsCA.html ) and https://web.archive.org/web/20150924213345/https://www.polyc...

and their blog is still up

http://blog.polychart.com/

Perhaps the founder would make it MIT/BSD at this point?

Anyone want to tweet at her? https://twitter.com/lisaczhang

Also, for some history... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519893

Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

#33

Post by infinite8s »

vegabook wrote: post #31

honestly is this what passes for "data visualization" with these guys? A weekly stacked area chart?? You've been able to do this in Excel for 30 years. It worked fine on a 386. Where's the progress here.. Data visualization is about multi-gig, possibly streaming data sets, and crucially, parsing the data, probably in real time, for the crucial 1-2% of it that's actually interesting, and helping user find them. Not pu…

Do you have any suggestions for products/tools that can handle multi-gig streaming datasets?

Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

#34

Post by vegabook »

infinite8s wrote: post #33
vegabook wrote: post #31

honestly is this what passes for "data visualization" with these guys? A weekly stacked area chart?? You've been able to do this in Excel for 30 years. It worked fine on a 386. Where's the progress here.. Data visualization is about multi-gig, possibly streaming data sets, and crucially, parsing the data, probably in real time, for the crucial 1-2% of it that's actually interesting, and helping user find them. Not pu…

Do you have any suggestions for products/tools that can handle multi-gig streaming datasets?

https://flink.apache.org/

Re: Data visualization service Reflect raises $2.5M seed round led by DFJ

#35

Post by infinite8s »

vegabook wrote: post #34
infinite8s wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any suggestions for products/tools that can handle multi-gig streaming datasets?

https://flink.apache.org/

Ah sorry I meant from a data viz perspective. But I guess a dataviz solution that handles multi-gig datasets would need to be integrated end-to-end.
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