[HN Gopher] I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces ___________________________________________________________________ I made advanced BI queries with Scratch puzzle pieces Author : misterdata Score : 45 points Date : 2022-07-17 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pixelspark.nl) (TXT) w3m dump (pixelspark.nl) | 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-17 23:00 UTC)