BigQuery Toolbox

While BigQuery is a lightning fast data warehouse solution, the BigQuery UI leaves a lot to wish for. Not only is it painfully slow, it is also very poorly designed with lots of white space that takes away precious screen real estate that could be used for your queries.

Enter BigQuery Toolbox.

The BigQuery Toolbox is a lightweight Chrome browser extension that I made for users of Google BigQuery. The BigQuery Toolbox comes with a set of features designed to make your live in BigQuery a lot easier. Top features include:

  • Toggle the “Explorer” side panel with the click of a button
  • Toggle the “Query Results” with the click of a button
  • Show (smaller, redesigned) query tabs in multiple rows (if “Editor Tabs” is enabled)
  • Hide the top toolbar (“Features & Info” / “Shortcut” / “Disable Editor Tabs”)
  • Minimize the “Compose new query” button

The idea for the BigQuery Toolbox was born when I felt annoyed by the huge “Explorer” side panel that shows your projects, data sets and tables, but takes up a huge part of your screen and cannot be minimized.

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Customer Analytics

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Business Intelligence

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Why do we use it?
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CRM Customer Relationship Management

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Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

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Performance Marketing

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Why do we use it?
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Jazzity

Jazzity – Your pocket guide to jazz in Berlin.

What’s the idea

Jazzity is your pocket guide to jazz in Berlin. Jazzity not only gives you an overview of the jazz clubs in Berlin, it also aggregates the programmes from the clubs’ websites and makes them accessible in an easy and convenient way.

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Technologies

  • Data extraction: Scrapy, Python, Scrapinghub
  • Data transformation, storage & retrieval: MySQL, PHP, Python
  • Website: Bootstrap
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NaviChat

NaviChat – der Chatbot für die Fahrplanauskunft im ÖPNV.

What’s the idea

NaviChat ist die mobile Fahrplanauskunft im Facebook Messenger. Einfach NaviChat anschreiben und fragen, wie du von A nach B kommst.

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Technologies

  • Navigation: Google Directions API, Google Places API
  • Chatbot logic: Chatfuel
  • Website: Bootstrap
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Gefaellt-mir

Gefaellt-mir – Teilen macht Freude

What’s the idea

Gefaellt-mir.org and the corresponding Facebook page is a project exploring the murky waters of Buzzfeed, Upworthy et al. The basic idea is to create a massive audience on the Facebook site, then link to the website and profit from people clicking on the ads.

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Technologies

  • Ads: Facebook Ads Manager
  • Analytics: Google Analytics
  • Website: WordPress
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Introducing NaviChat

Since Chatbots are the so hot right now, I decided to have another go with Chatfuel and build what the world will remember as … the Navibot, the world’s first chat-based navigation bot! Then, however, I typed that into Google and found out that Samsung already has a vacuum cleaner called NaviBot, which doesn’t even navigate. Lame.

Anyway. I then decided to build what the world will remember as NaviChat, the world’s first chat-based navigation bot.

That is probably not true, but anyway, my main mission was to play around a bit with the Google Directions API and the Google Places API and see what they can do in terms of navigating the public transport network.

Give it a try by going to m.me/NaviChat on your mobile with Facebook Messenger installed.

Both the Google Directions API and the Google Places API are part of the Google Maps Platform, which in turn is part of the Google Coud Platform.

(to be continued)

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