[HN Gopher] I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces
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       I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces
        
       Author : misterdata
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-07-17 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | qsort wrote:
       | Probably a bit of a tangent, but the BI world sure loves their
       | no-code tools. It's one of the few sub-industries where they
       | really took hold.
        
         | intrasight wrote:
         | I do a lot of BI and am a coder. I find these tools (Tableau)
         | super frustrating. So much point and click. Such poor
         | abstractions. Not at all DRY. I like the end product just not
         | the process. Lacks a good API for doing it programmatically -
         | which makes sense as they make money selling desktops.
        
         | delusional wrote:
         | Not because they're any better of a fit for BI stuff mind you.
         | At my place of work, the BI department is a black hole you can
         | keep shoving more compute into, and they'll just come up with
         | worse queries.
        
           | qsort wrote:
           | I mostly agree, but I think there's a reason behind the
           | madness. Back in the early 00s to early 10s they really were
           | more productive, "secret alien technology"-type tools.
           | 
           | But these days obviously ten lines of python (or whatever
           | else) calling the database do exactly the same thing, except
           | you actually have git, debuggers, ides, etc.
           | 
           | Many BI departments still cling to them because they're
           | comparing 2020s no-code tools to early 2000s programming
           | languages.
        
         | imachine1980_ wrote:
         | Like excel this tools really help making user ->power users I
         | think the problem whit no code is they make developer tools les
         | powerfull instend of regular tools more powerfull
        
       | cptroot wrote:
       | Thanks for making a whole blog post out of the anecdote mentioned
       | yesterday. Really excellent to see the whole story!
        
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