CSV Explorer (YC F1)
Data
csv exploration
SHOW HN2017
60points
34comments
#710of 2,242 in 2017
Top 32%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works well with large files and faceted filtering
From 1 comment
Worked like a charm. This is really cool. I can see a lot of uses with large files. Especially filtering down "faceted" search items.
danvoell on HN
Objections
Uploading sensitive data to a server is a privacy and legal risk
From 3 comments
Cool idea - Having to work with sensitive data, it'd be great to have this functionality without importing/uploading to the internet.
deadringerr on HNThis tool would be great were it not for me (rightfully) getting fired and possibly sued by any of my clients if I uploaded even a single file. In fact, what kind of business…
dromenkoning on HNOpen it with a programming language like R, Julia or Python that supports the data frames. No reason to upload 60 gigs to the web or Excel.
goatlover on HN
Could be built fully client-side instead of using a server
From 2 comments
Think not of a desktop app, but of doing everything client-side in JS. That way, it's still a web app, but you're not schlepping [sensitive|large] data between front and…
seanp2k2 on HNIs there any reason this tool couldn't be 100% client-side?
emodendroket on HN
Requests
Offer a desktop or self-hosted version
From 2 comments
I suggest exposing a config variable in the js client to set the hostname of the Postgres server. This way you can provide a self hosted version of the backend, and customers can…
chatmasta on HNCool idea - Having to work with sensitive data, it'd be great to have this functionality without importing/uploading to the internet.
deadringerr on HN
Provide an API for own datasets
From 1 comment
This is really awesome. What sparked this idea? Not sure if you have this feature, but I think it would be really cool if you could open APIs to your own datasets. This could be…
patwalls on HN
Questions
What does it do that existing tools cannot
From 2 comments
Does this do stuff lnav can't?
chrisweekly on HNMy solution to this problem, so far, has been ipython and pandas. (and maybe jupyter notebook for visualization and sharing). What's the value-add here?
hprotagonist on HN
Alternatives named
csvkit
From 1 comment
I usually use csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/index.html). There are commands to list the columns, filter, browse the data in a somewhat formatted way with less.…
xaybey on HN
Pandas and Jupyter
From 2 comments
At a former job, our embedded device logs decoded to csv. Some of them were too large for Excel. Pandas handled them without a burp. Pandas in Jupyter (Ipython Notebook) was a…
a3n on HNMy solution to this problem, so far, has been ipython and pandas. (and maybe jupyter notebook for visualization and sharing). What's the value-add here?
hprotagonist on HN
Excel
From 1 comment
I usually use csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/index.html). There are commands to list the columns, filter, browse the data in a somewhat formatted way with less.…
xaybey on HN
Kibana
From 1 comment
Kibana has quite a few rough edges but it takes non-technical users very far in terms of data exploration. Local setup also alleviates privacy concerns. The bummer is…
lomereiter on HN
lnav
From 1 comment
Does this do stuff lnav can't?
chrisweekly on HN