Bamboolib
Dev tools
data wrangling gui
SHOW HN2019
119points
61comments
#390of 2,195 in 2019
Top 18%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Pricing: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Makes pandas easier to learn and use with generated code
From 2 comments
This looks excellent. The ability to generate the Python code for the pandas dataframe transformations looks to be more useful than OpenRefine, TBH. How much work would it be to…
westurner on HNThis looks user friendly and will certainly have impact on ppl learning python/pandas. Yet not for me as I do not like the 'click to create macro code'. They never have all the…
Pinegulf on HN
Demo looks excellent and useful
From 3 comments
This looks excellent. The ability to generate the Python code for the pandas dataframe transformations looks to be more useful than OpenRefine, TBH. How much work would it be to…
westurner on HNLooks awesome!
mnist91 on HNThis is certainly amazing! Thanks!
helloiloveyou on HN
Objections
Pricing is too high for the value
From 3 comments
Looks great, but not a fan of the licensing model! $600/year for something thats 99% open source? https://bamboolib.8080labs.com/pricing/
madmaze on HNIf this is supposed to replace Microsoft Excel - Would an enterprise be willing to pay $500 / month for this thing instead of getting an entire Office Suite? I don't want to…
amrrs on HNAwesome demo, so you deserve some honest feedback. After the demo I looked at the pricing and immediately decided it's not worth it by far. From the viewpoint of a freelance…
argument_clinic on HN
Not open source
From 2 comments
As a non-data-scientist who does some infrequent data analysis in python, this looks amazing. But not something I think we can justify paying for with the amount of analysis I…
sauwan on HNI'm sad that it's not open source, because I want to add functionality and now I can't.
ebg13 on HN
Binder link is slow or fails to load
From 2 comments
In terms of resource utilization I recommend to link to the youtube videos first and not to a "binder" url that starts up a jupyter container...
bayesian_horse on HNError loading 8080labs/bamboolib_binder_template/master!
ddgflorida on HN
Target audience unclear; UI may suit non-coders poorly
From 2 comments
Who is your target user? I think that if user is able to install jupyter notebook, pandas and load data with python, there is a high chance that user can also search pandas…
pplonski86 on HNThis doesn't accelerate professional data scientists. To me the only use of this tool is to make available the more complex uses of pandas to individuals without the…
missosoup on HN
Requests
Support for Dask or other dataframe backends
From 2 comments
This looks excellent. The ability to generate the Python code for the pandas dataframe transformations looks to be more useful than OpenRefine, TBH. How much work would it be to…
westurner on HNI am happy you like it :) About (1) - (3): I will have a look at those features, but thanks a lot for the feedback. About (4): we currently support pandas, but be basically want…
__tobals__ on HN
Plugin or extension architecture
From 2 comments
> What do you think about this hybrid approach? What I want is to be able to add new functionality to the bamboo UI via new buttons for specific functionality that you don't…
ebg13 on HNThat sounds great and is something that is already considered to some extent in the current software architecture. Can you name one exact feature that you would like to add?…
kite_and_code on HN
Cheaper freelancer or personal license
From 1 comment
Awesome demo, so you deserve some honest feedback. After the demo I looked at the pricing and immediately decided it's not worth it by far. From the viewpoint of a freelance…
argument_clinic on HN
Questions
Will it be open-sourced?
From 1 comment
As a non-data-scientist who does some infrequent data analysis in python, this looks amazing. But not something I think we can justify paying for with the amount of analysis I…
sauwan on HN
Is it built on ipywidgets?
From 1 comment
Looks really interesting. The GUI is purely built on ipywidgets correct ?
simlan on HN
Alternatives named
Trifacta / Cloud Dataprep
From 1 comment
The UI is heavily inspired by the one from Trifacta/Cloud Dataprep. (i.e. histograms when selecting columns, brushing to start a transformation...) I guess that makes it easy to…
hv42 on HN
OpenRefine
From 1 comment
This looks excellent. The ability to generate the Python code for the pandas dataframe transformations looks to be more useful than OpenRefine, TBH. How much work would it be to…
westurner on HN
Excel / LibreOffice
From 1 comment
If this is supposed to replace Microsoft Excel - Would an enterprise be willing to pay $500 / month for this thing instead of getting an entire Office Suite? I don't want to…
amrrs on HN
pandas-profiling
From 1 comment
In the past, I've looked at OpenRefine and Jupyter integration. Once I've learned to do data transformation with pandas and sklearn with code, I'll report back to you.…
westurner on HN