Data exploration

Useful RethinkDB commands for exploring data

Akshay Chougule, a biologist working with large data sets, wrote a blog post about Useful Unix commands for exploring data, showing ways to “query” comma-delimited plain text data sets with common shell commands. We thought it’d be interesting to do a similar article using ReQL in the Data Explorer, showing how it can be used for ad hoc queries.

Akshay created a fictitious data set of movies; we’ll use data from the IMDb To