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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
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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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The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
I'm working on an OSS BI tool focused on a document form factor. Might be of interest to you. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
tellery
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my list of self-hosted (dev) tools
please take a look at tellery https://tellery.io/ this can be a great project , but it is stuck in 200 likes for a while now and i wanted to give it some love from the self-hosted community.
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What if self-service, dashboard and ad-hoc analysis are developed in one place?
In short, we create this project to bring data exploration, analytical narratives and collaboration into one place.
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Made an open-source Notion for business intelligence
Open-sourced at: https://github.com/tellery/tellery
What are some alternatives?
metriql - The metrics layer for your data. Join us at https://metriql.com/slack
AWStats - AWStats Log Analyzer project (official sources)
superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Socioboard - Socioboard is world's first and open source Social Technology Enabler. Socioboard Core is our flagship product.
Trino - Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Open Web Analytics - Official repository for Open Web Analytics which is an open source alternative to commercial tools such as Google Analytics. Stay in control of the data you collect about the use of your website or app. Please consider sponsoring this project.
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
Redash - Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
re_data - re_data - fix data issues before your users & CEO would discover them 😊
GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
lightdash - Self-serve BI to 10x your data team ⚡️
turnilo - Business intelligence, data exploration and visualization web application for Druid, formerly known as Swiv and Pivot