A lot of talk about this being aimed at &quot;non-technical&quot; people, but these types of interfaces are still widely needed for developers, too.  It can make trivial jobs much, much faster to complete both programmatically and through a GUI.  Technical folks like abstractions too!<p>I like this quite a bit, although the similarity to SQL might pose more problems than it&#x27;s worth in the long run.<p>That and AmazonML&#x27;s striking similarity to Excel&#x2F;CSV (not to mention the crop of ML-on-demand providers) show these types of interfaces and user experiences are a pretty glaring need right now in data science &#x2F; ML &#x2F; classification.