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alexkbuilds··on Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
I built something similar in my previous job. The part that we were never able to figure out is how to guarantee that everybody is looking at the right numbers. Even if you have a comprehensive semantic layer, there are still a lot of things that can go wrong in putting metrics on a dashboard. This is why analysts are still needed, IMHO.
alexkbuilds··on Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
You should also factor in that you have way more flexibility in the dashboards you create and everybody can build them easily, just by describing what they need.
alexkbuilds··on Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
Snowflake is a Data Warehouse that is hosted in the cloud. The permission policies that you can define can become very complex - actually I find it's too complicated, I prefer BigQuery from GCP because of this reason.
alexkbuilds··on OpenAI CLI
can somebody give me a few examples for what I could use this?
alexkbuilds··on Show HN: Penmentor – Claude marks up your handwritten math like a teacher
Nice - are you planning to support other platforms?