Skip to main content

Keboola

Keboola is my new favourite toy and I have lost many hours playing with it and so far all for free, they even have free training which I have mostly been able to follow with the free account, though the tool is clearly evolving quickly and the training is now over a year old. 

However finding Keboola and the free MySQL databases are what inspired me to start this project. 

What I like about Keboola (Free): 

  • So far (over a week) completely free and no credit card required. I am not anywhere near looking like I am going to use my allocation for this month. 
  • Easy to connect to Snowflake, Google Drive, Google Sheets, MySQL and much more. 
  • Free use of Snowflake, with Snowflake being so hot at the moment this is great. 
  • Lots of logging. 
  • Decent training that is mostly useful, 

The dashboard:


What I don't like: 

  • I couldn't get the gmail connector to work due to Google Security policies. 
  • Product is evolving so quickly that training is already date or can't be done on free tier? Including the tasks to get their certifications. 
  • Some things were not obvious but were, to be fair, answered by the training. 

Summary: 

I am sure I will do many more posts about Keboola but if you are an aspiring data person and want to widen your horizons or try out new tech then Keboola looks like a great option. Time will tell if I continue to find it interesting and easy to use, but so far I am impressed and love the ability so spin up a mini Snowflake database. 

Below is a screenshot of me using my snowflake database and I have linked to a very basic dashboard I built in a previous post. 



Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

AWS training cloud academy free course

One of the things I like about this course are the instructors are really clear but also that it provides free labs that allow you to actually sign into AWS and perform some actions to actually create and do things without worrying that you are going to incur a cost.  Today I complete one of the hands on labs.  This was to create a lambda function, in this case it was a very basic python script that was searching a website for a keyword. I then placed this into a schedule and used cloudwatch to create a dashboard that monitored the running of this function. Overall it was a very simple use case but it was also a very simple process to setup.  I don't have much to add to this other than it is well worth signing up to cloud academy for the free training if nothing else, I am tempted, once i have done some more training, to give the paid for option a go to get the full sandboxes. 
Post a Comment
Read more

Gen AI news 29-04-2024

Here are some recent updates and insights related to Generative AI (gen AI) : Enterprise Hits and Misses - Robotics and Gen AI Converge : This article discusses the convergence of robotics and generative AI. It explores breakthroughs needed in the field, the FTC’s policy change regarding non-competes, and the impact on AI model sizes for enterprises 1 . Read more All You Need To Know About The Upcoming AI-Powered OLED iPad Pro : This piece provides a summary of rumors surrounding the next-gen AI-fused OLED iPad Pro, powered by the new Apple M4 chip 2 . Read more Delivering on the Promise of Gen AI : New Electronics reflects on NVIDIA GTC and key announcements that contribute to delivering on the promises made for generative AI 3 . Read more The Future of Generative AI - An Early View in 15 Charts (McKinsey): Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, generative AI has been making headlines. McKinsey research estimates that gen AI features could add up to $4.4 trillion to the globa...
Post a Comment
Read more

Using Gen AI to write a fairly simple SQL query

So I wanted to see if I could test the different Gen AI models that are out there and get them to write a relatively simple SQL query. Basically select against my table, as detailed in the prompts to Gen AI, and produce a list of the fastest 1000 times at an event (that takes place weekly) and provide the times and names of the athletes that ran said times. Note that although I say view a lot I mean query because what are views if not stored queries anyway and I am using this in my DB as a view.  Winner : Copilot The original view can be seen below:  So it is a fairly simple view with some logic in it to through some spanners in the works. The question is with the table definition and some explanation can the Gen AI platforms recreate a working version of the above view?  The initial Prompt:  I can't find a good way to format and embed my whole chats with the AI tools so I will work with what I have. Here is my original prompt that I used to get a starting point....
Post a Comment
Read more