The Quality Education and Skills Training (QUEST) Alliance is a not for profit organisation that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of teaching and learning. QUEST aims to create innovative, engaging learning experiences through the use of modern technology, to enable learners and facilitators to develop 21st century skills in their own time, at their own pace. They engage with multiple stakeholders to demonstrate and enable scalable solutions in education and vocational training using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
QUEST focuses on children & youth, age 10-30, and provides them with a set of real-world skills along with opportunities to build confidence in a fun and engaging way that prepares them for work and life. QUEST is on a mission to empower 4 million learners & facilitators with 21st century skills for social and economic growth by 2023
Talend
MySQL
Apache Superset
Firebase - BigQuery
The client had earlier tried multiple reporting tools like Zoho Reports, Tableau and PowerBI to create reports and dashboards. But these initiatives did not yield the expected results as it did not have an integrated workflow and data pipeline. Data was in silos and this presented a significant challenge to the team at QUEST. The client required the following:
As a first step, we had discussions with the business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into data requirements. We then reviewed the existing implementation to identify bottlenecks and challenges. The following were the major problems identified by our architects.
Based on our analysis, we proposed a layered architecture which will be scalable, more efficient and easily maintainable. The next step was to identify and evaluate different open source tools. We zeroed in on Metabase and Superset and did proof of concept implementations. We finally chose Apache Superset as it was meeting their requirements and their data team was more comfortable with the tool.
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