This is an interesting idea, but this query implementation seems awfully complex. What are the chances you are developing a sandbox where a user can construct queries through a GUI against real-time data they've collected?
I think this will help people learn the query language more quickly; and as a bonus, they'll ramp-up faster with your product by using simple queries they've constructed from the sandbox which completely avoids that nasty initial knowledge hurdle.
Who is your target user? It seems like your copy on your site (for the home page & query language) is geared towards developers but analytics are typically used by the business/marketing guys.
Target user is professional analyst. Someone who is hired or is consulting the organization to provide "data science" services. We believe that this user becomes increasingly technical with abilities to create workflows with multiple tools and data sources to get insights. We hope that our service will become indispensable tool for such user.
Yes, they indeed provide comprehensive UI to slice and dice the clickpaths. Our goal is to build flexible and fast API to enable creating custom reports and dashboards.
We also envision extensibility with custom functions and datasets so people can do just about anything with their clickpath stream, including mashing it up with their data.
[+] [-] mikegreenberg|14 years ago|reply
I think this will help people learn the query language more quickly; and as a bonus, they'll ramp-up faster with your product by using simple queries they've constructed from the sandbox which completely avoids that nasty initial knowledge hurdle.
Signed up. :)
[+] [-] petrohi|14 years ago|reply
We hoped that people will try out examples from the front page to get used to the language. Also writing small tutorial is in plans.
[+] [-] benbjohnson|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] petrohi|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] shivang|14 years ago|reply
They do provide a fair bit of flexibility of slicing and dicing of data as well in their UI
[+] [-] petrohi|14 years ago|reply
We also envision extensibility with custom functions and datasets so people can do just about anything with their clickpath stream, including mashing it up with their data.