Totally agreed. The same for Limn :)
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On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 11:42 a, Dan Andreescu wrote:
> If we don't use it directly, I can always borrow any interface ideas that people find compelling. I'll be looking at it but let me know if you have favorite features.
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, David Schoonover <dsc@wikimedia.org (mailto:dsc@wikimedia.org)> wrote:
> > Yeah, they've got a set of really good graphic and interaction designers. Everything I've ever seen from them has been slick.
> >
> > But I agree with Dario.
> > 1. We're not looking for an end-to-end solution at this point (no matter how often we might get calls and emails pitching them).
> > 2. They didn't open source the dashboard, only their datastore. This isn't surprising, as that's a large portion of the value they add. Plus, we absolutely cannot use SaaS for most analytic purposes because of privacy concerns.
> >
> > If it were fully open and we could host the application ourselves, we definitely would have considered it six months ago. While that ship has sailed, I would still love to pursue other ways of working together, as I have a lot of respect for the MetaMX guys.
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> > On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 11:27 a, Dario Taraborelli wrote:
> >
> > > Jessie: I don't think so, we've now invested a significant amount of effort in building a dedicated infrastructure. It would have been awesome to have an off-the-shelf solution at that time, but the timing of the announcement is unfortunate and I suspect incompatible with our roadmap. Diederik should be able to expand on this.
> > >
> > > The metamx dashboard remains one of the best examples of how a usable dashboard should look like that doesn't require analysts to operate, but it also requires significant hardware to run (MetaMX use 800+ cores on EC2).
> > >
> > > Dario
> > >
> > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Jessie Wild <jwild@wikimedia.org (mailto:jwild@wikimedia.org)> wrote:
> > > > Does this re-open the door for us to potentially work with them?
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alolita Sharma <asharma@wikimedia.org (mailto:asharma@wikimedia.org)> wrote:
> > > > > Awesome!
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Dario Taraborelli
> > > > > <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org (mailto:dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org)> wrote:
> > > > > > You may remember that one of the reasons not to consider a potential partnership/collaboration with MetaMarkets was that part of their analytics stack was proprietary. Today they announced that they are open sourcing Druid, the distributed data store that powers their dashboards:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
http://metamarkets.com/category/technology/druid/
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> > > > > > Dario
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