March 2023 Summaries

Hex introduces Collections, a new organizational framework for projects that enhances collaboration and data accessibility within workspaces. Collections allow users to create groups of projects with customizable permissions, making it easier for teams to find relevant reports and insights. Unlike traditional file directories, Hex projects can exist in multiple collections, promoting flexible organization structures and preventing project silos. With Collections now available on all paid plans, users can improve their data workflow and collaboration efforts.

Jupyter Notebooks have been widely used in analytics and data science but face limitations in interpretability, reproducibility, and performance due to their reliance on imperative programming and shared mutable state. To address these issues, a new approach based on reactive programming has been introduced, using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to manage dependencies between cells. This allows for better interpretability, reproducibility, and performance by visualizing and respecting a consistent order of execution for the notebook.

Hex has announced a partnership with Sequoia and raised $28 million in funding. The company focuses on building software for people to work with data, and its new Magic AI assist features are integrated into the existing Hex experience. Hex aims to contribute to the future of human-computer symbiosis for data by partnering with machines to better understand the world. The funding will be used to invest in the future of data workflows and ensure the company can navigate through any ups and downs in the coming years.