Hacker News: uramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=uramsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:50:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by urams in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"]]>Probably the biggest issue is that it's primarily useful in the context of exploratory analysis and makes iteration on a plot much slower, requiring you to re-run the query to get a new viz. Iterating on a viz is best done with the data cached locally or elsewhere.

In the context of a query used for a dashboard in prod, you're likely using a different viz environment so it's not useful at all there.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:47:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838811uramshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838811https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838811<![CDATA[New comment by urams in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"]]>What feels like a lifetime ago, I made almost all of the R tooling at Uber and actually implemented what was effectively exactly this on top of the R DB tooling. Everyone, I think correctly in retrospect, I showed it to thought it was more or less useless. I had hoped it would be a nice way to pull and instantly visualize data but that was rarely all that valuable like this.

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