TOtosh·Feb 18, 2024Submission
Monte Carlo simulation of the NBA season (meltano, dbt, DuckDB, evidence)
2 points · Open discussionmatsonj
nba-monte-carlo
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matsonj / nba-monte-carlo
nba-monte-carlo
Monte Carlo simulation of the NBA season, leveraging dbt, duckdb and evidence.dev
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Monte Carlo simulation of the NBA season, leveraging dbt, duckdb and evidence.dev
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2023 | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2023 | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2023 | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2023 | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2023 | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2023 | 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2023 | 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2023 | 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2023 | 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2024 | 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesWe have support for duckdb (and CSVs and Parquet through duckdb). We don't support python, but some people have also told us they have used evidence as the front-end for a python project - used python to do data transformation and calculations, then dumped the results into a duckdb file in an evidence project and built the visuals and narrative in evidence.
"Containerized" approaches with evidence are also quite interesting - lets you combine several tools and use evidence as the last mile. Here's a great example: https://github.com/matsonj/nba-monte-carlo
In Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as CodeI’m working on an open source BI alternative called Evidence which works nicely with version control and CI/CD.
If that’s of interest, you can read our launch HN here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781
One of our community members has built a pretty cool Duck DB + dbt + evidence data stack that you can run entirely in GitHub codespaces. He’s calling it modern data stack in a box.
You can see that repo here:
https://github.com/matsonj/nba-monte-carlo
In DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables