Malloy Data

With Malloy’s semantic model, we can visualize query results like dashboards, tables, and charts with built in interactions shared across common dimensions and measures. A preview of these new @MalloyDev features 🧵

I'm thrilled to be hosting @LloydTabb, founder of Looker, for a fireside chat on Monday evening, June 10th at Stable Cafe in SF. Lloyd is now joining Meta as he pursues his latest creation: a "better SQL" called @MalloyDev. "Many attempts at building a better SQL have failed... If we can solve Meta’s data problems with Malloy, we can likely solve anyone’s." We'll be discussing lessons learned from scaling Looker, and what inspired his big hairy, audacious goal to replace SQL. (If anyone can pull it off, it's Lloyd). If you're a data enthusiast in town for #DataAISummit, or already here in SF, please RSVP via the @rilldata link below. rilldata.com/events/data-ta…

Dataviz is hierarchical. Unfortunately, our data tools don't always play along. 🧵

Where we're going with simple charting in Malloy: smart defaults, easy configuration using tags directly on your data youtu.be/DLyR4Q5OcK8

4 months ago I joined the Malloy team to work on an interesting data challenge: how to visualize complex, deeply nested data structures in a consumable way. Here is where we are at today, and where we are going 🧵

"Malloy is the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once of multidimensional data exploration." @RealTrevorFaux linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

New Malloy blog post is out! If you're a BigQuery admin, we've built a drop-in data model for analyzing your BigQuery usage, and it can all be done directly in your browser. Check it out here: docs.malloydata.dev/blog/2024-01-2…

What's next for Malloy in 2024? Analytical Completeness, Magical Visualizations, More SQL Database Dialects, Parameters, and fantastic developer experiences. docs.malloydata.dev/blog/2024-01-0…

Malloy is neat

ok people said not to call it ugly I apologize she's okay in my book

I spent a few hours learning Malloy with a large set of data that I frequently query with SQL. I can honestly say I now ask and answer 10x as many questions that would have been too annoying to do via SQL. Of all of the SQL enhancements/replacements, I feel like this one could really take off. Kudos to the @MalloyDev team on this. Also, the VS Code integration is fantastic and the getting started documentation made it easy to pick up.

There is a lot of talk about making "Semantic Data Models", but very little talk about how to query these models. If you work with data, I think you will enjoy this primer about how to ask interesting questions in Malloy from a prebuilt semantic data model malloydata.github.io/blog/2023-11-1…

YAML is a terrible choice for a Semantic Layer implementation. In this post, I explain why, and talk about why the Malloy team is building the Semantic Layer on top of a full-fledged programming language: malloydata.github.io/blog/2023-11-0…

Malloy lets you compose with queries with views of data. The query below creates a dashboard. Having a great great IDE support lets you understand how it works. See the results in the thread.

Wrote my first @MalloyDev blog post! How to make a sorta bump chart with Malloy's image renderer malloydata.github.io/blog/2023-10-2…

Carlin hides the lede :). Malloy's Python integration now supports Jupyter Notebooks! Try the demo in Google Colab.

The Malloy Language is taking a major step forward: we're removing the label of "experimental", and releasing Malloy 4.0 -- so named because it's the fourth major renovation of the language. Read all about it here: malloydata.github.io/blog/2023-10-0…

Coming back with some Football Analytics blog post 👀 Actually more about tooling, but using #Malloy alongside @kestra_io and @duckdb to parse fbref data make things so easy ! medium.pimpaudben.fr/scrape-analyze…

I love when people I don't know write about Malloy. They always see it differently. Kala does an excellent job of describing why Malloy is so important when dealing with a network of data. This is a really good read. linkedin.com/posts/activity…

Introducing the Malloy Command Line Interface. Lightwieght, powerful, concise data transformation. linkedin.com/posts/lloydtab…