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wow, that is some cool statements. imagine if they actually believe and do those things. anyway, palantir is pretty cool.
now on to the thing that i beginning to love about them. check out this blog post: Palantir: so what is it you guys do?. there is too much in the blog post to summarize. but here are some interesting points.
WOW! this is the kind of stuff i have been thinking about for hackystat. we need some palantir approach to our hackystat analyses. this realization of sophistication is what makes analyses useful. information (the data) is meaningless if we don't understand it. to me, palantir is all about making meaning. that is a cool concept. they are insight providers.
so... i think hackystat could use several things:
i like the idea of a palantir approach to hackystat. hackystat provides information. a palantir approach to the analysis provides meaning. simple charts and tables or even fancy charts and tables just doesn't cut it.
palantir has an approach, i wonder if it will work. if it does, it will be the future of analysis.
2 comments:
Hi Aaron,
I agree with you that the Palantir approach is what Hackystat needs. Indeed, I feel I already view the Hackystat "mission" from a similar perspective with respect to both the importance of analysis and the importance of people.
My question to you is: so where are we failing to replicate the "Palantir vibe"? What should we be doing differently? How can we change our practices to get even better?
there might have been a little confusion in my posting. i think we (csdl and hackystat dev team) have the palantir vibe from an organizational/motivation standpoint.
i was just merely stating how they seem to value the right things in terms of an organization mission statement. i mentioned this for all of the other companies out there. so, the upper posting of this blog doesn't really apply to csdl. hm... wait a minute, it could always apply to csdl. and that should be our continuing quest to get better as an organization. as of right now, i think we are providing that vibe, but we should be always be evaluating whether we are or we aren't.
most of my blog post was to direct the readers to what they are doing in terms of analysis, and how palantir thinks about analysis.
looking at what they do in the analysis area and thinking about hackystat, i think we eventually want to get to making user interfaces that make exploring the data much easier. for example, i totally love the different levels of abstraction that we have, sensor data, daily project data, telemetry, etc. but we are bounded by the implementations of that. for example, it is impossible to seamlessly switch between or drill down into various levels of information. or we don't have the capabilities to automatically generate trends based on the data we are currently looking at. instead, we have to switch contexts and "get out of the sensor data viewer and go to the telemetry viewer" if we want to see trends. in other words the actions of that analyst is bounded by the implementation of the separate views.
i think there are a lot of other examples like that. in my opinion, once we finish up the measurement side of the framework, there are many opportunities to revolutionize user interfaces for exploration and collaboration. it is a hard task. but it seems really cool.
i personally, think we should have an integrated killer user interface. i like how the UIs are separated now, but i think that serves just a portion of what we want to do. eventually, i think we should have a big webapp again, but this time more integrated based on tasks not just analyses.
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