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Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by johnieeboy on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:54PM (#11399602)
seems a little bit sparse on the documentation or am I missing something?
Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by caravel on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:13PM (#11399770)
We'll be providing short user training videos very soon.
Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by teej on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:19PM (#11399820)
As someone who is the core audience for this tool can I say that I strongly prefer clear documentation over videos? Videos are way too hard to maintain and end up being stale the minute after you post them in fast-moving projects. I can't text-search a video and I can't be linked directly to an answer in a StackOverflow response.

Written documentation is vastly superior to videos in my opinion.

Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by shostack on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:34PM (#11400380)
To add--you can also skim text MUCH more quickly for the piece you want compared to video.

I absolutely loathe video for any analytics-related documentation. It rarely adds any real value over text outside of live webinars where I can ask questions.

Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by glwtta on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:44PM (#11400011)
seconded. videos are not useful as documentation.
Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by dacort on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:19PM (#11400296)
Would very much appreciate that as well as walk-through docs.

Got it up and running easily enough, and connected to Redshift. But seemed like creating a new "slice" required custom JSON params to define it. Unless I missed something?

edit: yep, missed something. Can "explore" a table by clicking it's link in the table listing.

Re:Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visuali... by robroy72 on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:35AM (#11422166)
Is there an API for building viz in code similar to something like Bokeh, or is it end user viz design only?