Introducing Sense – A Next-Generation Platform for Data Science

Why does every data science infrastructure provider want to be full stack? I really don't want to use an online IDE, I really don't want to be locked into one particular way of distributing workloads, I really don't want to move my code from GitHub. All of the individual components look great, but the all-or-nothing proposition is really off-putting.

We were just looking at it. It&#x27;s a nice interface -- it&#x27;s logical and someone gave it a thought. They also have some of the features we (at SageMathCloud) were talking about with regards to socializing: e.g. following a user and in reverse having followers, etc. Also nice is that they have project templates (for python, julia and R, basically), where you get some explanatory *.md files to read. (I.e. not an empty project). You can also start a project from a git&#x2F;github source and so on.<p>It seems to be heavily broken right now, or heavily unstable. Hmpf... I&#x27;m trying to start the ipython notebook (you have to do this on demand), then you can start editing the files ... but it is stuck. Now it&#x27;s completely broken.<p>The terminal works fine now, and a project is running in some kind of isolated container in beefy linux ubuntu 14.04, running under a common &quot;sense&quot; user (which is the only user). They are also running some node.js client and their &quot;butterfly&quot; server.<p>Ok, well, I tried to test it further or add a collaborator, but the website just says &quot;502 application not responding&quot;.<p>It didn&#x27;t seem like they have real-time editing or LaTeX.<p>few more details. ... now it runs fine again. two screenshots attached. ... one is the project view, the other one the &quot;workbench&quot;.<p>They run a plain &quot;R&quot; terminal, but with a neat HTML output. It&#x27;s a vertically split editor, where the .r file is on the left, and you can select lines of text which are then executed via &quot;ctrl+return&quot;. That&#x27;s exactly how those R people work (instead of having cells like ipython or sagews)<p>The same for python files: one or all lines are fed into the &quot;ipython terminal&quot;, not the notebook (!), and then translated to some html output on the right. plots work fine, etc.<p>So, on the right of the screenshots, you can see the copies of the input lines.<p>By default, they add a .gitconfig file with the username and email address. That&#x27;s cool, and I guess this could be done for SMC as well.<p>There is no auto-save for files, just lost the content.<p>-- William Stein and Harald Schilly

I took a look - registered for the free personal version to try it out. I like the ideas and a nice working demo that sucked me in. I fiddled around with modifying the R code and running it again.<p>It was a little confusing in places. Eventually I figured out that I need to save the modifications, before running it again. I think I ended up starting up a couple console sessions that I didn&#x27;t really need. Eventually figured out they were open and that just navigating away from a session didn&#x27;t shut that session down. I went back in and manually stopped them.<p>Things that resonate with me. Running on a server in the cloud - including instances that are substantially more powerful than my laptop Dead easy deployment (being a sysadmin or devops type admin is low on my priority list of things to learn) Interesting demo for me to play with Online collaboration - even though I mostly work solo Encouragement to practice version control with research code Scheduled jobs and automating pipelines<p>I will certainly keep an eye on how it develops and create a project of my own on there in order to better understand the features, what works and what is missing<p>Thanks for the hard work to get to this point<p>I suspect that I will continue to play around with it and post some of my own code

Hey all.<p>We just opened up Sense to the public. Happy to answer any questions you may have about Sense and building a modern data science platform.<p>Tristan

Nice. I like it. I just replied to you too. I couldn&#x27;t see any error messages when I ran a modified example with errors.

Just signed up to test things out. Really nice interface and great job with having the onboarding process although I did get slightly lost when it came to editing the R file. Will continue to test it out a little bit later.<p>Excited to see if this takes off - working on a startup where an integration could be beneficial to both sides. Just curious who you feel your target customer is?

Looks interesting. Seems like they&#x27;re attempting to solve similar problems as Project Jupyter[1] &amp; ScienceBox[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://jupyter.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jupyter.org&#x2F;</a> [2] <a href="https://yhathq.com/products/sciencebox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yhathq.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;sciencebox</a>

The interface looks nice. How do you get data into the platform? The field I work in (genomics) usually uses a bunch of flat text&#x2F;binary files instead of databases. How would this platform interface with that kind of data?

Freaked out for a second there, because I thought that this was announcing that Hello.is pivoted before I got my Sense Sleep Monitor.

Good Saas, but obviously not graph stylish friendly

This is fantastic!

nice. good work!

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Nice work.