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ppage wrote 1 day ago: |
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i love kepler.gl! regularly use it just to visualise trips, good to see |
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it gaining visibility |
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zkmon wrote 1 day ago: |
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As someone to whom these kind of awesome visualizations are often |
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presented, let me tell you something. Real decisions do not depend on |
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these nice stuff. I sometimes feel sorry for the folks who spend great |
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effort in producing these, like a children amusing themselves with the |
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great sand castles they built. A lot of times, simple text or numbers |
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could also have more effect on the decisions. |
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enjoylife wrote 1 day ago: |
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I agree that these visuals rarely drive decisions on their own. |
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Theyâre more like supporting tools⦠useful for framing an |
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argument or guiding a narrative in a presentation, especially when |
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static. |
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Unless itâs interactive or tied to live data the usefulness of the |
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visualization produced is limited.. itâs a shame and itâs |
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something this tools should pivot towards |
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qwertox wrote 1 day ago: |
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Which is powered by deck.gl, also a very nice library. |
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[1]: https://deck.gl/ |
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pininja wrote 1 day ago: |
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Itâd be great to have contributors join our collaborator summit [0] |
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in the Seattle area this fall! |
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Itâs a free event, supported by the OpenJS Foundation, kepler.glâs |
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host foundation. |
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Weâre expecting to have a session from Shan, the creator of Kepler.gl |
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as well as Ilya, the creator of SQLRooms. Weâre still accepting |
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session proposals as well [1]! |
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[0] [1] |
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[1]: https://deck.gl/events/seattle-summit-2025/ |
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[2]: https://github.com/openjs-foundation/summit/issues/450 |
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adeptima wrote 1 day ago: |
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Foursquare has another open source project worth noting on DuckDB - |
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SQLRooms [1] âBuild data-centric apps with DuckDB An Open Source |
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React Framework for Single-Node Data Analytics powered by DuckDBâ |
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[1]: https://sqlrooms.org/ |
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xyst wrote 1 day ago: |
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The marketing page needs some work on mobile but otherwise a cool |
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library. |
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Export your phones GPS pings and then use this to render a heat map of |
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the most frequently used locations :) |
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pininja wrote 1 day ago: |
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That was a fun mobile challenge! I just exported my Google Maps |
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Timeline, used ChatGPT to convert it to a CSV of points, and then |
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made a heatmap with Keplerâs grid layer.. I had to tweak the color |
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breaks a bit or else it only highlighted my home and (old) office |
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loicsaintroch wrote 1 day ago: |
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Nice to see kepler.gl getting some love here! |
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Funny enough, I just released an open-source, opinionated map editor |
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built on top of kepler.gl with their DuckDB integration â yesterday! |
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If anyone's curious to see how it all fits together, feel free to check |
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it out here: [1] . |
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[1]: https://github.com/mountayaapp/insight-editor |
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plannerqadeer wrote 1 day ago: |
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Great to see this. Indeed very useful. |
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I am new learner here. Would you kindly share Which version of kepler |
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you are using as base? |
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loicsaintroch wrote 1 day ago: |
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Glad to see it can be useful. The project relies on the latest |
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kepler.gl version, which is v3.1.8. |
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plannerqadeer wrote 23 hours 15 min ago: |
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Excellent. You made me feel lucky |
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ethan_smith wrote 1 day ago: |
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DuckDB integration is a game-changer for geospatial visualization |
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since it enables client-side processing of massive datasets without |
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server roundtrips, significantly reducing the performance bottlenecks |
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typical in browser-based GIS tools. |
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tharmas wrote 1 day ago: |
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Thanks. I didnt know this about DuckDB. I will have to check it |
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out. |
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peterb wrote 1 day ago: |
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From earlier post (2018): [1] |
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[1]: https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/keplergl/ |
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[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181879 |
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aidanlister wrote 1 day ago: |
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Oh so exciting!!! |
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Iâve been looking for an alternative to CARTO, their sales reps are |
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awful and their pricing is wildly expensive and opaque. |
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pininja wrote 1 day ago: |
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CARTO is more focused on backend pipelines and large-scale data |
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(where everything needs to be tiled before it can be visualized), |
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while Kepler is a great last-mile visualization tool. It probably |
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makes more sense for enterprises that scale beyond what Kepler can |
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do. |
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That said, credit where itâs due - their engineering team is a |
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super active contributor to the deck.gl framework powering kepler.gl. |
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kingforaday wrote 1 day ago: |
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I had to look this up. You are talking about Carta Maps? That's |
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different from what this audience will think of when we read Carta |
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but ironically your comment is the same. |
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smokel wrote 1 day ago: |
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They probably mean CARTO, formerly known as CartoDB. |
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[1]: https://carto.com/ |
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