Quilt
Data
data package manager
SHOW HN2017
367points
178comments
#43of 2,242 in 2017
Top 2%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
19 positive, 57 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 95 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 9 for, 3 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Parquet conversion and columnar storage are a smart choice.
From 1 comment
I think it was a really interesting (and smart) choice to convert to Parquet format. Columnar storage is so much more efficient, and working with data in Parquet is pretty fast…
sixdimensional on HN
Useful for publishing and sharing public datasets.
From 2 comments
I am a scientist who sometimes publishes data sets with academic papers and this looks super useful both as a tool and as a potential publishing best practice. Currently doing…
azag0 on HNAwesome idea. Have you thought about a marketplace perhaps? Say for instance I create a package with all the cities in the world or all species of canine, host it in a…
dawiddutoit on HN
Objections
Hard to use with existing data tools; data locked into a walled garden.
From 1 comment
It looks like a plain html page but requires JS to view anything except: "Please enable JavaScript to use this site." What a wonderful time to live in. Anyway, do I get this…
stewbrew on HN
Docs require JavaScript; site not usable without JS.
From 2 comments
It looks like a plain html page but requires JS to view anything except: "Please enable JavaScript to use this site." What a wonderful time to live in. Anyway, do I get this…
stewbrew on HNAny way your web page could be made viewable without requiring Javascript? I disable it in my web browsers because of security and privacy concerns, and it would be great if I…
pmoriarty on HN
Pricing model questioned.
From 1 comment
I think you're missing a trick with the pricing. My guess is the real money will come once data is treated like a commodity. So the big, big money will be in brokerage's and…
reggieband on HN
Requests
DOI support for dataset versions.
From 2 comments
I am a scientist who sometimes publishes data sets with academic papers and this looks super useful both as a tool and as a potential publishing best practice. Currently doing…
azag0 on HNAny thoughts on adding DOIs? It's a complex subject wrt versioning, in particular (new DOI per version? How to keep track?). It would help tremendously with the academic…
torchous on HN
GitHub sign-up.
From 1 comment
Is there an option to be able to sign up using Github? That would make life much easier for me.
forkLding on HN
R language support.
From 1 comment
Hi. R is really important to us and we want to add support (probably through SparklyR). If you email me I can add you to our Slack channel and we can talk through extending Quilt…
akarve on HN
Frictionless data spec interop.
From 1 comment
Thanks for releasing. Looks useful and aligned with several projects I've worked on. The first thing I looked for was a canonical package / resource specification in build.py.…
tzm on HN
Questions
How is it different from DAT?
From 1 comment
How is this different/the same as the DAT project (https://datproject.org/ and https://github.com/datproject)?
fredcash25 on HN
Can users run their own instance and is it open source?
From 1 comment
How much of it is open source? Can I run my own?
ah- on HN
How does it compare to git and Pachyderm?
From 2 comments
What does this do that cannot be done with git or similar software + data stored in some standard format?
fiatjaf on HNThis makes me think of http://www.pachyderm.io/. Although Quilt seems to be more like github for data, whereas Pachyderm is more like git for data.
gouggoug on HN
Alternatives named
Git / GitHub
From 2 comments
What does this do that cannot be done with git or similar software + data stored in some standard format?
fiatjaf on HNIt's outrageous how little tooling support there is for version control in data compared to code. Every mainstream database forgets history with updates, don't support…
smilliken on HN
Pachyderm
From 1 comment
This makes me think of http://www.pachyderm.io/. Although Quilt seems to be more like github for data, whereas Pachyderm is more like git for data.
gouggoug on HN
DAT
From 1 comment
How is this different/the same as the DAT project (https://datproject.org/ and https://github.com/datproject)?
fredcash25 on HN
data.world
From 1 comment
This looks like a cool project -- always glad to see new tools for statistical collaboration and reproducible research. How does this compare to what data.world [1] is doing?…
edraferi on HN
Synapse
From 1 comment
I know only a bit about Synapse. It seems like they have some valuable data. I think the biggest differences are in the culture and user experience. Quilt gets its DNA from the…
akarve on HN