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Show HN: Octo.ai, Open source analytics hypervisor

by ticktockten on 7/29/16, 6:18 AM with 12 comments

• by paulasmuth on 7/29/16, 3:48 PM

  >> What we figured was the biggest problem with any form of machine learning or data based system is that we require high quality historic data. When a company starts the heavy dependance on free/freemium analytics services it means that all that data is usually lost for good. [...]

  At the risk of shamelessly promoting our (also open-source) product: We also didn't like the fact that all commercial event analytics tools were completely proprietary and would effectively be closed data silos, so we recently released the open source EventQL event analytics database [1]. Maybe it would be an interesting target to support in octo.ai?

  [1] http://eventql.io/

• by mrgreenfur on 7/29/16, 1:38 PM

  Pretty great vision, much of the analytics from 3rd parties is clickstream/web data. For the most part, unless you have a specific use for it, it's too much data to bother saving yourself. Does Octo somehow handle this huge volume without everyone having to host google analytics on their own? (Maybe a dumb question, I didn't dive into it past the homepage :)

• by code_research on 7/29/16, 12:39 PM

  Is the machine learning goodness included in this? Also a 'vagrant up' would be very nice... Thanks, anyway!

• by finid on 7/30/16, 10:33 PM

  This looks nice.

  To OP, I'm looking forward to the dockerized version. Would be a good subject for a presentation at ContainerizeThis 2016 - http://containerizethis.com.

  If you're not too far from Texas, we'd love to have you present.

• by tedmiston on 7/30/16, 5:33 AM

  So you're like an open source version of Segment? Am I understanding it right?