undefined | Better HN

0 pointsnitrogen10y ago0 comments

Are there other examples of poor UX? Overeager pattern matching alone wouldn't bother me, but if it's a sign of other inattentiveness...

0 comments

3 comments · 1 top-level

lmeyerov10y ago· 2 in thread

Periscope is in a distinct, lower tier of usability. You write SQL. Or, put differently, the innovation of Tableau was so you don't have to write SQL for most visual encodings, even non-trivial ones.

infinite8s10y ago

However that does limit you a bit when wanting to do deeper analysis. Looker/Periscope are tools for analysts who know and are comfortable with SQL. (Disclaimer- no affiliation, just trying to build a desktop tool that sits in the spectrum between Tableau and Jupyter Notebook)

lmeyerov10y ago

You can still write SQL in Tableau, that's table stakes.

Funny to me: it took years for Heap to introduce that.

Edit: we use and help customers with IPython/zepellin etc, but that doesn't change that these things are 10 years behind as IDE/visual interfaces. Adding charting & drilldowns is much harder than a button to turn a table into a line graph, and analysts are wasting a lot of time due to this.

2 more replies

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse