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MIT License | GNU General Public License v2.0 or later |
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evidence
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Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?
We use echarts at https://evidence.dev and have been quite happy with it. We do a lot of embedded analytics and it's worked well for us.
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SQLPage – Building a full web application with nothing but SQL queries [video]
It’s interesting to me how far you have pushed the SQL language in this framework, such that it truly is “SQL only”.
The challenge as I see it with enabling analysts to build websites is that you need to build abstractions to get from familiar (SQL, yaml) - the language of analytics, to new (HTML, CSS, JS) - the language of the web browser
As one of the maintainers of Evidence (https://evidence.dev), one of the things I’ve often considered is how accessible our syntax is to analysts. Our syntax combines SQL and Markdown, with MDX style components e.g.
The are inherently webdev-ey, and I do think they put off potential users.
On the flip-side, by adhering to web standards, you get extensibility out of the box, and working out what to do is just a Google search away.
Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking piece.
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Blazer: Business Intelligence Made Simple
Dataclips was my first experiences writing SQL.
Writing code was a markedly better DX that building dashboards in Tableau, which is why I'm now working on https://evidence.dev - a SSG for creating data from SQL and markdown
Previous HN discussions:
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Is Tableau Dead?
I'm one of the founders of Evidence (https://evidence.dev) - would be great to hear about your experience. Reaching out now!
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Apache Superset
Full fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases.
But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. so if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be very useful for latter kind of use cases are SQLPage and Evidence.
They make it very convenient to whip out some SQL and convert that to a neat professional looking web ui that can be forwarded to an end user. In case of Evidence it is a statically generated site, and in case of SQLPage it is a web app that connects to a live database.
SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev/
Evidence: https://evidence.dev
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A love letter to Apache Echarts
We used ECharts to build our charting library at Evidence and it’s been a great experience overall (https://evidence.dev).
We started with D3 and a few other tools, but felt that we get a lot more out of the box with ECharts, like interactivity and an events API. ECharts is also a lot more extensible than people give it credit for.
If anyone is curious, we documented the process of selecting a charting library after assessing several options: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136
- Evidence, a static site generator for data apps
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Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
The new direction seems very similar to what evidence has been doing for a while
https://evidence.dev
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PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
I'm quite excited about this, and would also love to have it distributed as an NPM package.
I work on an OSS web framework for reporting/ decision support applications (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence), and we use WASM duckDB as our query engine. Several folks have asked for PRQL support, and this looks like it could be a pretty seamless way to add it.
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Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
> Not sure the language you choose matters as much as making the API usable by a wide audience.
Fully agree with this, and having typeset my masters thesis and later my resume using LaTeX, I think that the “authoring experience” is 100% the place to focus on improving.
If you’re interested in the “markup to document publishing” space, you might also be interested in the open-source report publishing tool I’m now working on, Evidence (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence)
It’s similarly based on markdown, though uses code fences to execute code, HTML style tags for charts and components, and {…} for JavaScript, i.e.
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pandoc
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Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)
My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.
I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.
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Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.
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LaTeX makes me so angry at word
Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?
For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.
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📓 Versionner et builder l'eBook de son Entretien Annuel d'Evaluation sur Git(Hub)
pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:
Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.
Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.
Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-pdfmake
[2] https://pandoc.org/
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Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform
Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.
[1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/
[2]: https://pandoc.org/
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Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?
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Pandoc
I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.
[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061
- I don't always use LaTeX, but when I do, I compile to HTML (2013)
- What Happened to Pandoc-Discuss?
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