> It would be cool if we could use the public Big Query data set in Google cloud, but it is missing some data that we'd like to report on. Namely users as well as enhancing the posts with fields like (domain name of a story).

The BigQuery dataset has both of the fields necessary to do the analysis, so I'm confused. (you do need to use the NET.HOST function to extract a HN-esque domain name from the url; more info in this notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-submission-scor...)