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Evidence.dev mentions (13)

• 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. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• 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 ( - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• 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:. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• 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! - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• 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... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Looker mentions (14)

• edit home page to add folder section

  Then in the "foldername" you can have 5 folders, each one for each of the groups. This means that when group1 enters looker.com, his default page will be the "foldername", which contains group1folder (he cannot see the rest of the folders if you have set the permissions correctly for each folder). Source: about 1 year ago

• Stars, tables, and activities: How do we model the real world?

  Even if you want to make Wide Tables, combining fact and dimensions is often the easiest way to create them, so why not make them available? Looker, for example, is well suited to dimensional models because it takes care of the joins that can make Kimball warehouses hard to navigate for business users. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• dbt for Data Quality Testing & Alerting at FINN

  We take daily snapshots of test results, aggregate them, and send Looker dashboards to the appropriate teams. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• I'm a dev ID 10 T please help me

  Dashboard: I like to use Datastudio because it's easy (just like using google sheets), but you can also try out Looker. Source: over 2 years ago

• The Data Stack Journey: Lessons from Architecting Stacks at Heroku and Mattermost

  For Growth and larger, I would recommend Looker. The only reason I wouldn't recommend it for the smaller company stages is that the cost is much higher than alternatives such as Metabase. With Looker, you define your data model in LookML, which Looker then uses to provide a drag-and-drop interface for end-users that enables them to build their own visualizations without needing to write SQL. This lets your... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago