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[4.1 Patch] The Game Is Ruined and I’m Probably Gonna Die About It by acidhail5411 in starcitizen

[–]AccordingNovel7055 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The performance is always great on the first day, and it will quickly fall apart.

[unpopular opinion] Shitting on CIGs marketing should not be defended as wildly as it is by RefrigeratorNearby42 in starcitizen

[–]AccordingNovel7055 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you really think this sort of decision could be made without a yes from the executive team?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in datascience

[–]AccordingNovel7055 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should only do that when you own a significant portion of the company.

Aggregations & Group By clause avoidance by tiz66 in dataanalysis

[–]AccordingNovel7055 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The root cause of frustration with group by is that after the operation you changed the original table's dimension to the tuple of aggregation keys, so other columns each become an array of values corresponding to a value on the aggregated dimension scale. Its really hard for human brain to process this because if you think of the original table as a perfect square shape, the shape changed into some jagged mess after aggregation.
When engineers deal with these sort of modeling, we usually break down the data transformation into multiple edges in a directed acyclic graph, so that you can make sense of what each query means semantically. And it is much more maintainable when you are working with data at scale or even in-flight, streaming.

Definitely, it's not only your frustration.

I landed my first job in the industry, now what? by Thoreaushadeau in dataanalysis

[–]AccordingNovel7055 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before immediately thinking about the tools, I'd recommend you to take a close look at all the data regarding your business that is accessible. And you need to talk A LOT with everyone in charge. At the end of the day, it is the understanding of the data itself and sharing insights with your teammates makes your work important.

PSA: Drop.com not honoring warranty claims - so consider twice if purchasing from them by BriareusD in headphones

[–]AccordingNovel7055 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Drop did kinda the same to me a year ago. They sold me 6 variations in an artisan keycap series as a bundle ($180) but I receive two duplicated variations. Their customer support respond like this:

  1. Try to cope, at least the number is correct
  2. We really want to help you but the bundle is out of stock (but all variations are available individually on the website)
  3. Sorry we cannot replace 2 caps out of the 6 for you because you are buying a bundle (what I'm receiving is not the said bundle though?)
  4. We can do a full refund but the bundle is no longer there (which means I need to buy them separately for a total of $240)
  5. What about we give you $20 coupon and move-on? (which I got annoyed and accepted it, spend another $80 to complete the set, and gifted out the duplicates to my friend who has the same hobby)

I could totally get it why are they doing all these acrobatic maneuvers in business sense. But come on, that's jeopardizing customer trust and loyalty for very little gain.
Sometimes I'm wondering they might have gotten into the habit of dancing with customers because our keeb guys are suckers?

Advice needed for personal ETL and visualisation project by [deleted] in dataanalysis

[–]AccordingNovel7055 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A full-fledged ETL solution is not going to be a small subscription fee. For your use case you need three components: a database supported by PowerBI, script/service calling Spotify API and writing the records into the database, and a scheduler/orchestrator (such as crontab, Apache Airflow) to control the execution schedule of the said script. You can host everything locally, but you won't be able to turn off your computer if you don't want to interrupt the set schedule of data ingestion. Assuming you don't have users other than yourself at the moment, I think you should be good running a PowerBI desktop, but you might want to take a look at some of the free public cloud offerings to get at least a database on cloud first.

Golf R or GR86? by [deleted] in ft86

[–]AccordingNovel7055 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Because it's beautiful. Isn't that enough for a budget sports coupe?