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very cool. I've been thinking of building a distributed analytics service like this -- can you talk about what the architecture of something like this is? If I had to build a custom chart, I would have to go get my own data?

It would be awesome to have a service that provides hosted data, allows anyone to make charts / random transformations / add extra data and then add that to the main dashboard.

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I'll leave the architecture of the cloudant db to the Cloudant guys. Being able to add data, though, is interesting. If people want to add different views (which basically trasform the data using map/reduce), we can add those to the db so they are available to all.

For charts, you just create a new chart and assuming it works and all, we'll host it on the site. It will pull the data directly from the db via the REST interface.

So, basically, yeah - we are hoping to do exactly what you are asking.

commented too soon! looks like you've thought of this. http://www.hind-cite.com/about. very cool.

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