I'd recommend MintData (https://mintdata.com)
It lets you define your dashboard logic in a spreadsheet & then drag/drop the dashboard UI and publish it for end-user consumption.
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#12metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.
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#13There are so many such solutions, that It depends on your use cases.
If you're looking for high-level dashboarding/monitoring that connects directly with your sources (REST, 3rd-party apps like Facebook, Adwords, etc), then tools in the realm of Klipfolio, Databox, Grow.com will suit you well. If you're looking for visualization tools that connect to your data-warehouse/SQL database, then BI tools like Holistics, Metabase, Redash, etc will likely work for you. And of course there's tools that can support both kinds of sources, like PowerBI and Google Data Studio.
P/s: This post does a good job at laying down a framework for evaluating these sort of BI tools: https://www.holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/navigating-th...
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#14metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.
I want to love Metabase, I really do. But some of the UI decisions are mind boggling. Why is accessing reports and dashboards so difficult? Things are hidden away under poorly named constructs. Buttons don't do what I'd expect them to do...
It's great but it comes with a few drawbacks.
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#15If your dashboarding needs are as rudimentary as you describe, then Streamlit! https://www.streamlit.io/
I use it for my dashboards. It's super simple to prototype apps and it's under rapid development.
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#16Google Data Studio?
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#17Zapier/IFTTT with Google sheets & apis you want monitor?
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#18Retool is great software and has a great team. ( https://retool.com/ )
I've been using Retool for a couple weeks and it's pretty impressive.
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#19metabase.com is amazing if you're dumping the data into Postgres or similar.
I want to love Metabase, I really do. But some of the UI decisions are mind boggling. Why is accessing reports and dashboards so difficult? Things are hidden away under poorly named constructs. Buttons don't do what I'd expect them to do... It's great but it comes with a few drawbacks.
Their embedding is pretty darn decent. You could do something like set up a key or key per role in Wordpress and embed them as a post type (or your CMS of choice) in an Intranet if you wanted a little more control over it.
You need to set up a signing key on the backend, which is a good thing. Many dashboard sharing schemes end up being public or with very weak security.
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#20I looked into this recently, when I started writing the software to analyze my selftracking data.
After researching available options for a while and consulting everyone I know in this field, I settled on building on top of the Plotly Javascript library:
https://plotly.com/javascript/
It does nice interactive charts out of the box. All you need to do is throw data at it.
What it lacks are more high level operations like:
- Interactively switch between different chart types (lines, scatter, box plots, bar charts etc)
- Aggregate time series by hour/day/month/week/year
- Extrapolate data to the rest of the current time period
So I built this functionality on top of Plotly and I am happy with the result.
It looks like over time I will turn this into a mix of data studio and jupyter notebooks. But it runs in the browser and is simple and blazingly fast.