The same as last year, the discussion at finds2016 on September 17 extended from the morning into the afternoon. Worrying over recent developments in the data warehouse space, developers agreed that our use cases to date may be too closely tied to one particular form of business organization. As one participant put it, user stories “shouldn’t be so corporate.” Finili may find the greatest number of users in places where there is no database infrastructure at all.
We agreed to add user stories based on the experience of the individual analyst. Suggested users included a consumer tracking progress on lifestyle and budget goals and an investigative journalist looking for signs of conflict of interest in public data. The latter user would want to be able to drag and drop data urls into the Pre library — there’s a data object and a user interface feature we hadn’t thought of before! The comparison to iTunes is useful here. Whatever form of music you start with, iTunes is ready to catalog it. Finili ideally ought to respond to potential input data with a similar kind of enthusiasm.
