4 Examples of the power of open source analytics

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This post highlights how GitLab's Data Team has embraced an open-source philosophy by making their primary code repository public and MIT licensed. It details a specific instance where an external contributor enhanced the codebase by converting PostgreSQL-specific SQL to Snowflake-compatible format for date metadata generation, which was then merged and is now relied upon. The post also discusses the benefits of this transparency for community engagement and driving industry forward, emphasizing that the analytics code itself is not the competitive advantage, but rather the data and the decisions made from it.