Airbnb open-sources Caravel: data exploration and visualization platform
If anyone involved with this is around, I'm curious why Airbnb would build something like this - cost, performance, features, all of the above? Data querying and visualization is a pretty crowded field with a lot of commercial options to choose from[1].I'm not knocking Caravel (it looks amazing) just curious why build vs buy in this case.[1] Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Chartio, Qlikview, Gooddata are just some that come to mind.