AskEdith – Natural language interface for databases

Now I can stop tweaking my SQL query and start tweaking my prompt.<p>Less cynically but more critically, you’ll still have to review the SQL generated by this program. Unlike reviewing art, that review will be difficult, because reviewing SQL is not easy (unless the query was trivial to begin with).

I&#x27;m looking forward to the day when there&#x27;s an open source version of these models. I am not interested in making a gazillion API calls to a third-party vendor about how I&#x27;m introspecting into my own reports.

You have an unnecessary apostrophe after &quot;CSV&quot; on your Free tier pricing box. Apostrophes do not make initialisms plural.

This is one of those products where it sounds cool but it will only work for very simple queries, where writing the prompt and reviewing the generated SQL query takes as much time as writing the SQL query from scratch.<p>Also, even the SQL shown in the EXAMPLES is bad :|<p>I guess it&#x27;s true, you won&#x27;t be writing SQL from scratch, you&#x27;ll be writing SQL from very broken SQL.

Also, it doesn&#x27;t work.<p>I uploaded a very simple dataset in a CSV format, and not even the suggested questions after the upload works.

Echoing others&#x27; experiences, really difficult to try the demo. I saw data - I typed a question, hit the button. Nothing. I need to hit Enter. Do so. Wait for like a minute - progress bar appears? Then a message about datasets. Huh? ..

Awesome! I suspect that natural language will soon be the default way we interact with data, so I’m excited to see this. There’s just such a clear need for something like this and the technology is finally ready.<p>(Full disclosure: I have a side project exploring something similar. Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hermes-odmf.onrender.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hermes-odmf.onrender.com</a>. See the Metrics Catalog link for available metrics; all data is from 2018)

Are there any DB or cloud vendors already offering natural-language to SQL capabilities? I&#x27;d be a bit surprised if Google or AWS doesn&#x27;t have it, given their deep expertise in NLP.

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Not in a similar vein, but I find ultorg to be much better.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ultorg.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ultorg.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m trying out the demo with &quot;What is the most typical experience level for people whose job is analyst?&quot; and just get a half-way full red progress bar as a reply.

Wow very cool. Would love to see it interface with Bigquery or other data lakes so it could grab the schemas and structure query

I can see this being useful for managers or marketing people but not really for engineers.

I would really like to see how this would work against non trivial data (and queries)

The website&#x27;s awful. There&#x27;s no user testing on it - why do I have a 20 sec progress bar before it tells me I need to select files - where from? Drag from where? What format?<p>Found the datasets - what is AAPL.csv? What do the columns mean? How do I use them to query on? The UI has been designed by someone who doesn&#x27;t know anything about UIs. Like, anything.<p>Added: &quot;AskEdith translates English to SQL to help you save 1 hour every day&quot;. Well that&#x27;s a bloody strong claim. Wonder if it&#x27;s justified.

Where’s the anti-ORM crowd to defeat this idea?