![]() ![]() : That last name change was after I'd left. The rest of it is just a bunch of lowly peons doing a ton of gruntwork to hammer the data into a form that said GUI will accept. There's really no magic going on in such products - the only part that's really general purpose is the GUI used to view the end results. Data quality issues were handled with a massive case analysis during ETL. A lot of times, even the "analytics" are just shitty little pattern matches over tiny subgraphs formed from the data, the vast majority of which are also coded anew by the "analysts" for each data set. Companies like that just throw a bunch of fresh graduates at the data, and they hand-write loads of custom ETL code for every data set. There's nothing general purpose about either of their platforms (nor the similar offering from SAS). My first job out of university was with a Palantir competitor (Detica at the time I was hired, then BAE Systems Detica, then finally BAE Systems Analytics or something like that). ![]()
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