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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.

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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.

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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.
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