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Naive question from someone with a superficial understanding of Django- I thought the advantage of Django was to abstract away from SQL through Class/Model so you don't need to write these queries? I can't quite tell what the use case would be here

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This tool is aimed at mainly administrative folks who want to understand what's going on in their app/company by looking directly at data. Those folks are usually sql oriented, and you can build any ad-hoc query to do pretty deep analysis in sql. That's why being able to visualize things is also key here. Usually you'd do this in an OLAP db but this is a nice "poor mans" way for at least checking out what's going on without switching too much context.

Yeah, this would have replaced a fairly expensive SaaS subscription at my old job which simply allowed business-side folks the ability to run SQL queries safely (in theory).

This is all about ad-hoc reporting - it's basically a very lightweight business intelligence tool.

The key feature here is that you can build a new report without having to write any Python/Django code at all.

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