Show HN: CSV Explorer (YC F1) - Explore CSVs with Millions of Rows

Re:Show HN: CSV Explorer (YC F1) - Explore CSVs with Million... by deadringerr on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:20PM (#14044762)

Cool idea - Having to work with sensitive data, it'd be great to have this functionality without importing/uploading to the internet.

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Re:Show HN: CSV Explorer (YC F1) - Explore CSVs with Million... by jastr on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:31PM (#14044838)

Thanks - having worked with health data for a few years I can relate. Unfortunately, I don't have plans for a desktop app right now.

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Re:Show HN: CSV Explorer (YC F1) - Explore CSVs with Million... by seanp2k2 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:20PM (#14045259)

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 back-ends. Also, by offloading the work onto clients, it scales much better - you could host the app on a CDN and have no real back-end.

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Re:Show HN: CSV Explorer (YC F1) - Explore CSVs with Million... by jastr on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:29PM (#14045330)

I originally wrote it in entirely client side JS, but it didn't scale nicely past a few hundred thousand rows. For the really big datasets, CSV Explorer loads them into Redshift - queries takes a few seconds!

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