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by deadringerr 3357 days ago
Cool idea - Having to work with sensitive data, it'd be great to have this functionality without importing/uploading to the internet.
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Thanks - having worked with health data for a few years I can relate. Unfortunately, I don't have plans for a desktop app right now.
Think not of a desktop app, but of doing everything client-side in JS. That way, it's still a web app, but you're not schlepping [sensitive|large] data between front and back-ends. Also, by offloading the work onto clients, it scales much better - you could host the app on a CDN and have no real back-end.
I originally wrote it in entirely client side JS, but it didn't scale nicely past a few hundred thousand rows. For the really big datasets, CSV Explorer loads them into Redshift - queries takes a few seconds!