braden
April 8, 2022, 4:19am
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According to the web page, Cairn is actually open source (AGPLv3). It’s just not free; you have to buy a Tutor license. So it could be a nice option for some people.
Here are a couple of older comments on this subject that I think are still relevant:
FWIW I discussed this with Brian Beggs last summer, and while I imagine a lot may have changed, here’s an excerpt from the internal note I shared with my team afterward:
edX has been focused on building up their own BI (Business intelligence) tooling and it’s very focused on their own needs and the sort of concerns and limitations that apply at edX.org scale. …
edx-analytics-pipeline is based on the ETL model (Extract raw data, Transform it, Load it into the separate analytics database), and …
Thanks Nimisha and Braden for your comments on the analytics story at edX. We discovered Metabase and have been finding it super powerful and easy to deliver custom reports to our customers.
Our non-technical people can easily built reports without needing to know SQL, which I think is one of the biggest strengths of Metabase, but I’ve also heard very good things about dbt for doing more sophisticated analytics.
One of the downsides of Metabase is that you can’t do cross-database joins, so tak…
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