Freebase Meets Materialize 3 - First Impressions
Previous posts talked about what I’m hoping to do and some background on the Freebase data. Today, we (finally) take Materialize out for a spin.
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: The Data
- Part 3: First Impressions (you’re here)
First, a quick note: one of my motivations for doing this is to get a feel for Materialize as a user, so I’m going to take my developer hat off and put my user hat on. I’ve only been here a couple weeks and the first things I’ve been working on have to do more with internals than UX, so I’m hoping this will mostly work.
Spoilers from the future: it turns out to have worked pretty well! The following is all my real, unabridged first interactions with Materialize’s docs and Materialize itself. I end up finding some papercuts as well as some great touch-points where we could have helped conceptually with someone transitioning from traditional databases to streaming...