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by LunarAurora 1242 days ago
Datasette is great! I'm not very familiar, but here is my impression :

I guess my working definition is about the "default mode". So the (Datasette) Lite version could indeed be "no code" in a similar fashion to the "BI platforms" category above, that is, for read only advanced exploration.

In a deeper sense, "no-code" is also about how the software is designed for the ground up. This may include visually customising/configuring most of the settings/plugins and all those delicate UX touches for the "average-user".

Personally, I'm waiting for two things : better facets and support for multivalued columns (I really like my openrefine for local or polymersearch for online)
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simonw 1242 days ago
I'm thinking about faceting improvements at the moment - they're such a powerful feature and there's definitely room for making them work and look better.

What do you mean by multivalued columns?

Datasette currently does have support for faceting by JSON arrays, e.g. on this page: https://musiccaps.datasette.io/musiccaps/musiccaps_details?_...

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LunarAurora 1242 days ago
> faceting by JSON arrays

Yep that's is it. I should have read that facet page in the doc (just used the wrong keyword for search months ago)

btw, I played a bit more with faceting, and it is actually (functionally) good !

Datasette is (going to be) the "mpv" of DBs : An open (in code and in extensibility) standard for reading them. And that plugins system is a godsend. I will certainly delve into it more.

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