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What do you guys think about a system that would 'guide' the user through the process of creating a star schema data warehouse (Kimball style)?

The advantage of this approach would be the fact that you do the dirty laundry upfront during the modeling & population phases. The end result is a data structure that is fool-proof, i.e. there is only one way to join facts/dimensions, it's self-documenting. In fact pre-joined views could automatically be created (and persisted if need be), giving the business user a clean structure to interact with.

data science? doing statistics on a mac...

'cure cancer' was just a placeholder for anything of greater importance to the human condition. However, maybe you are onto something. Maybe ads are indeed the lifeblood of the new interconnected, networked world of century 21 and beyond. I guess nobody figured out a better way to sustain life on the 'internets'. Yet...

Wow. Definitely, an interesting reading. And a special guy, no question about it. On the other hand, the guy didn't cure cancer. Doesn't it give anyone pause to thin that the topic of conversation is 'ads'? You know, those little annoying things you would never click, and which get in the way of your normal life.

I mean we're talking about billions of dollars. So much human talent, skill, intelligence taken away from really important things... Just sad...

How does this distribution play with the outside world? Will I be able to install other third party libraries into the distribution? Does it have its own 'installation procedure'?

You have got to be kidding!

First of all, I'd like to congratulate Ryan Carson on the idea of 4-day work week. Hopefully this would start the ball rolling on the whole discussion of work/life balance here in the states. It is such a great concept and I'm sure will attract a lot of top talent.

The only thing is, it needs validation. I hope the company does really well in the long run, and therefore puts 4-day work week on the table for others to follow. Wouldn't that be great...

Nope... Born in South Africa...

Is this guy the Richard Branson of XXI century? Barely in his 40s and: Paypal Tesla SpaceX You've got to be in owe...

"We've invented cigarettes", come buy a pack... everything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger...

or how is this for the company slogan: "Good Data, bad people"...

This must be high in the runnig for "the stupidest EULA agreement" contest somewhere. If it doesn't exist yet, please someone start one...

Same here... 15" MBA is what I've been waiting for for a long time. I'm on 2nd generation 15" MBPro, which can die any day now. Not sure why this is not considered a priority for Apple, since it would be a perfect work machine (13" is just too small).

Bottom-eating scum...

what a bunch of f*&%en pussies...

BI field has been moving slowly but steadily into mainstream as more and more businesses recognize the need to be able to analyze internally generated information.

What are the biggest unsolved challenges in the field as of today? 1) Is it difficulty in getting a project up and running quickly due to lack of in-house expertise? 2) Is it expense of getting all the moving parts (software/hardware/personel) together? 3) Is it lack of strong management buy-in? 4) Is it bad/incomplete/fragmented data? ...

Please share your thoughts...

You know Facebook + Google, as big as they are, do not equal United States of America, which is still bogged down by the biggest recession since the Great Depression. What bubble are you talking about? These companies sit on small mountains of cash and can afford bidding wars over top engineering talent, especially that software is their livelihood. Let me assure you, hiring managers of 99% of companies in the US don't stand on street corners and bid up software engineers' salaries. You can sleep in peace...

YES. Not every developer (or a technical startup founder) is a sys admin or wants to get deep into server provisioning/software installation issues. This is orthogonal to what they are trying to build (at least in the beginning). I believe your idea has legs. Pursue it.

Idiot America in action. You get 'em boys...

Can people please stop using the "make adder" examples? Can't you come up with something original and fresh? The triviality of what is acomplished in such case actually obscures the usefulness and power of the concept. As a result, the novice will interpret the end product as some useless, magical mambo jumbo that doesn't give him much. So who cares if I can get a function that adds a number to something. I have a "+" for that. Give me a use case that I can admire...

Why do you want me to appreciate a ferrari if all you do with it is go pick up some groceries...

For future... host the prototypes on your site, making them instantly accessible to others... maybe also some sort of prototype exchange/marketplace... ideas for expansion are endless, however, first you have to concentrate on the ability to create clean, tight HTML/CSS prototypes

If you really want to build a valuable web prototyping app, please make it spit out HTML/CSS. That would be the killer feature! Give me a limited, but functional web site/app that I can then modify/refine, instead of a "picture" of it in whatever else format.

THAT would make me use your product in a hearbeat...

shmucks...

I don't know about you, but "whining like a little bitch" warrants a punch in the face where I come from...

He makes some valid points, but this could have been written in a couple of paragraphs and without constant personal attacks. I'd like to see this guy hold his own in a one-on-one confrontation...

Maybe this could be arranged?

Nice solution to a nagging problem. Has a lot of potential for building data transformations for reporting type applications. And it does make sense as a web app if it leads towards the path of "hosted data warehousing" or "data warehousing as a service", where a client deliberately makes a decision and is comfortable with entrusting their data to a third party in exchange for easier path toward some type of reporting/analytical capability. As a matter of fact, I would think about using/licensing it for a system I'm working on...

However, for those advanced use cases (when it's not a one-off), there is a need for saving/editing/copying/versioning of transformations. Are you guys thinking about providing such capabilities?

I'm an asshole and by the time I'm done with you, you will be an asshole too. And you'll like it!

Now, go to the back of the fucken line...

If that's true, it's really nice! Just like voluntarily implanting a blood sucking parasite into your neck.

1) Do you think this should be specific to a particular business process (like managing sales force performance, managing inventory, etc.) or open ended enough to just consume data in whatever form and let the user mold the application to their liking? I guess the short version of this question is: Will they know what they want?

2) You mention admin web interface to the app. Do you think this interface has a chance of being used by a non-IT people? Will business users have conceptual appreciation for data quality issues (great majority of problems with data analysis) like deduplication, incompleteness, errors, etc. Will creating clean data repositories (and therefore QA) be the core of this service or should the user be in charge at every point, allowing him/her to even get the "garbage in" and, what follows, "garbage out"?

3) Would the ability to create private data mashups with data provided by the service provider, other publishers, or publicly available be something of core importance or nice to have?

I have a lot of other questions, since I've started working on a web solution to this problem that would work in a way that is quite similar to what you've described. I would be great if you could share your responses/other thoughts further, either here or privately on my email (in the profile). Thx!

Exactly... stop telling me little stories. I don't read an article like that for its literary value. Get to the point!

Isn't it like a box with gear in it?