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Malloy Data Notebooks: A picture is now worth 10,000 words.

Notebooks feel great when working with data

Mar 11 •

January 2023

"Malloy is Incomplete" and the Turducken

Designing a new language is hard. There are two competing forces: Make the language complete enough so that is useful. You have to live with language…

Jan 23 •

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Data is Rectangular and other Limiting Misconceptions

Malloy breaks data's rectangular strangle hold.

Jan 18 •

December 2022

Dimensional Flexibility, one of the things that makes Malloy Special

Grouping by some attribute is the core operation of most data analysis

Dec 1, 2022 •

November 2022

Composing with Queries

Malloy's semantic modeling and querying enables an exciting new way to explore data.

Nov 25, 2022 •

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Exploring Data With Only a Webserver

Malloy Composer lets you build a web based data exploration experience by adding just 3 files to your data model.

Nov 24, 2022 •

April 2022

"No" Means Nothing Happens

"Yes" on Santa Cruz measure D

Apr 27, 2022 •

March 2022

"In computer programming, orthogonality means that operations change just one thing without affecting others." - Wikipedia

Mar 29, 2022 •

This is Making Things, a newsletter about Modern Data.

Mar 29, 2022 •

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