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I'm a happy customer of https://exploratory.io/ - it's a very user-friendly interface on top of R and I think you might find it helpful.

Hi, congrats on the funding!

I've been really interested in trying retool since my head of ops pointed me to it a few months back. I think it should meet my use-case but I'm not entirely sure.

I run an experimentation program and I think retool might give me a way to build views on experiment performance for me and my stakeholders, but what I think it may be missing is some way of running statistics on the data, perhaps using python or R.

Data "about" my experiments (descriptions, tags, dates & times, stakeholder details etc) lives in airtable. I think I can get that into retool using sequin, right?

Performance data lives in bigquery. Sessions, clicks, conversions - all that stuff.

Right now I build ad-hoc reports in R/excel/data studio but as our velocity increases I need to streamline this.

I think what I'd like is for a stakeholder to be able to select the experiments and timeframes that they're interested in from a list, then behind the scenes the ID details to then be used to run a query in bigquery and that to pull back performance data. I'd like to show that in charts and tables on screen with how much impact the experiments have had (I think so far this should be reasonably straightforward with retool), but crucially I want to calculate confidence bounds for each metric.

Is there any way of bringing Python or R into the data flow somehow to do the heavy statistical lifting?

Am I looking at this the wrong way? Should I be trying to pre-calculate this nightly as some sort of scheduled job and just use retool as a presentation layer?

Yes, it was to get people driving more.

1 Michelin Star = worth stopping for

2 Stars = worth a detour

3 Stars = worth a trip just to eat there

Are mixed use buildings a problem? I thought the normal problem in America was that zoning tends to prohibit mixing uselage types.

Here [0] is a random street i picked in Paris with mixed use buildings - looks pretty nice tbh-lots of accommodation & amenities, easily walkable, some shops and restaurants.

[0] 61 rue de Passy https://maps.app.goo.gl/14Kxyd9SwARyT79s8

How is this really that different from city centre multi use buildings where there are stores on the ground floor and living space on the upper floors? Especially if some of those are served by gig-economy delivery couriers.

Those stores get stocked somehow- usually not by semis.

You can effectively get inbox back now. The guy at Google who made it set up on his own and made (very good, paid) browser plugins to restore functionality.

https://simpl.fyi/

I effectively do this manually in Thunderbird. I have a saved search folder I treat as my "actual inbox" and I only add email addresses I want to receive mail from to the filter rule list.

There are also a couple of old TV series based on the books.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0105957/

If the goal here is becoming productive quickly, try https://exploratory.io/ which is a sort of WYSIWYG environment for R that will still let you code by hand if needed.

No affiliation, just a happy customer for 2 years.

It's telling that you don't tend to see this in Europe, where leave is more generous and people actually take it. (Typically around 6 weeks, including public holidays).

There's a common extension to this about teaching colleges -

'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach teachers.'

Give https://exploratory.io/ a look. It's free/cheap.

It's a nice easy GUI wrapper for R and just works.

I stumbled across it a year ago and now use it daily.

"drywall/plasterboard", "skin of bricks"... I wish!

Here I am with 12" thick stone walls and wifi can barely make it from the next room. I'm so glad the previous owner ran a little bit of ethernet cable!

Same in the UK - I've never seen eggs in the fridge at the supermarket.

We felt exactly the same way bugging a new kitchen last year. Salespeople thought we were being obstinate.

Fortunately we found one with knobs. https://www.aeg.co.uk/kitchen/cooking/cookers/electric-cooke...

It does have auto off on spills, but it's not overly sensitive and only triggers if you really let things boil over. Had it 9 months, can highly recommend this cooker.

VLC allows you to specify a subtitle offset, fyi.

I think you're hinting at the UK, but even if it were true that imports of cheese has fallen to nothing (it hasn't), there are a lot of local cheeses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_cheeses

I know of two.

https://mailstrom.co/

https://clean.email/

I've been using https://exploratory.io/ a lot, which is r in a really nice wrapper where you can do everything point and click, by writing code by hand or a mix.

That's really interesting, I'm going to check our analytics to see if the same thing is happening.

Another way you could potentially get around it is to fingerprint the user and store the basket contents server side and present them to that fingerprint.

UK: Very easy. They're free, you can order one pack of 7 per day either online or for local collection. It's been this way for months and months.

I've heard there have been some availability problems recently but I don't know anyone personally who has had trouble getting a pack.

I implemented this functionality where we work, but we did it properly.

We haven't done the "viewing" one, but we track every "add to cart" and every actual transaction, store them in a backend database and then use this to show badging that simply says "popular" on the top 5-10% of products in a given category, which is based on interactions over the past 24h.

Sure, we could improve it and make it more accurate etc, but I feel comfortable that we did things reasonably properly and it is a true and honest representation of the popular products.

There are SAAS providers that sell this functionality and it's super expensive ($tens to $hundreds of thousands annually) which is an absolute joke compared to how trivial it is to implement.

Any Facebook employee that wished to would surely find it trivial to use a VPS or something to mask their true location.

Initialisms.

Good article. I do this using 2 tools on top of Gsuite.

https://reclaim.ai/ - I found this on HN a couple of months back. It schedules tasks you add to your Google Tasks on your Google calendar, fully automatically.

https://tasksboard.com/ allows you to have multiple Google tasks lists displayed as a kanban board.

Drag your task into your reclaim.ai "todo" list and time gets blocked out in your calendar automatically. et viola!

Logseq or Obsidian.

Can self host & sync, bidirectional links, note transclusion (incredibly powerful), built on markdown files, nice interactive graph views and in the case of obsidian there is a good plugin community.

How did the arrangement work between you? Were you full-time helping them? Are you in a poorer country?

+1. I've been using it for the best part of a decade. I've tried other things but always come back to workflowy.

It was kinda stagnant for years, but in the past year or so there's been a lot of new features.

In think it's a YC company too, so the developers are probably here...

I was shocked when I went to the US that motels don't tend to have kitchens. In Australia and NZ, motels have at least a small kitchen area, if not a whole kitchen-diner room, and are like a small apartment really.

What about people who can't be vaccinated? My sister in law is chronically ill and, according to her doctors, not well enough to be vaccinated. It means she is still having to isolate as much as possible.

Are you saying we should give up on protecting people like her (sacrifice her?) for the convenience of others?