How is it different from soda.io tools?
Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
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Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#62For those of us in smaller businesses, any chance of supporting Google Analytics as an integration? The ability to detect statistical anomalies across random pages/events would be a godsend, especially for organizations that don't have a proper data warehouse and dedicated BI staff. I guess that'd be kinda a crossover between data integrity and marketing... in this case, an anomaly IS the data, where an unexpected in…
We're actually thinking of building something like that and would love to have a chat to learn more about use cases.
Sure, would be happy to chat. Still new here and not sure how private messages work. May I email the address in your profile, or?
In short, in many of the small businesses I've worked for, it was trivially easy to collect analytics data, yet monumentally difficult to analyze or make use of it in a meaningful way. The signal to noise ratio was incredibly low. One aspect of that was the need to manually discover unusual events, usually by creating manual dashboards and alert thresholds. But lacking a strong data science background, designing proper statistical tests to identify significant events was not something I could easily do.
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#63Congrats on the launch! How does this differ from Bigeye or Anomalo?
Our customers think of BigEye, Anomalo, and Monte Carlo very similarly (needing to go through a sales process, spending quite a bit of money), so this answer to a previous question about Monte Carlo might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29228070 (linking to avoid redundancy)
Congrats Metaplane and welcome to the market. Like you, Bigeye also works for small (but mighty) data teams.
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#64Congrats on the launch! How does this differ from Bigeye or Anomalo?
Our customers think of BigEye, Anomalo, and Monte Carlo very similarly (needing to go through a sales process, spending quite a bit of money), so this answer to a previous question about Monte Carlo might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29228070 (linking to avoid redundancy)
That doesn't seem like real differentiation. What specifically do you do differently than Bigeye or anomalo? Or is the real value add that I don't have to talk to a human?
I guess I just have a hard time seeing why this would help people solve real data quality issues.
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#65This looks AWESOME, congratulations team!
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're actually thinking of building something like that and would love to have a chat to learn more about use cases.
Sure, would be happy to chat. Still new here and not sure how private messages work. May I email the address in your profile, or? In short, in many of the small businesses I've worked for, it was trivially easy to collect analytics data, yet monumentally difficult to analyze or make use of it in a meaningful way. The signal to noise ratio was incredibly low. One aspect of that was the need to manually discover unusua…
Sure drop me an email in my profile.
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#67This looks great! I'd love to see how your tool could integrate with product analytics use cases. I see the product analytics use cases as downstream from the more core data/BI use cases you've described here - e.g. product analytics teams are often the ones spotting the bugs you mention. Even if core data/BI teams do notice the upstream bugs, what do you think would be the best way to notify downstream teams/dashboards about pending issues? Maybe something to think about.
Of particular interest would be able to correlate upstream events/logs with key product metrics - e.g. DAP/WAP/MAP, click-through-rates, revenue, etc.
Really looking forward to seeing how the product grows!
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#68very cool - any thoughts on going open source ? This would make it an easier comparison in my mind to dbt...
I recently stumbled on an open-source tool with a similar premise: https://github.com/elementary-data/elementary-lineage
you can check it out
Re: Launch HN: Metaplane (YC W20) – Datadog for Data
#69Congrats on the launch! How does this differ from Bigeye or Anomalo?
This is an exciting emerging space with folks (including multiple YC companies) tackling the problem from different directions. I helped compile a list here: https://medium.com/@vikati/the-rise-of-data-monitoring-7221e...