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by mmsimanga 2175 days ago
Metabase[0] lets you ask the question step by step. You pick the table, pick the filter, pick the aggregation and so on. I have been working in BI long enough to know that even this isn't going to answer all questions. It is cleaning data, filtering out stuff that shouldn't be included in the data set that somehow is included and other issues that makes it difficult to automate. The is usually a bunch of things not documented. I will be watching this with interest.

[0]https://www.metabase.com/

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The problem which TaBERT supposedly can solve is speed of this process, you can have hundreds of tables, with dozens of columns with many unobvious relationships, and constructing query manually can take lot's of effort even using UI automation. And the idea is that you have some system, which creates this query instantly following short description.