I’ve used tableau and such, but lately Apache superset is filling my needs. Check it out!
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#22Free:
Power BI is probably going to give you everything you need. It's free, easy to use and provides a lot of features to grow into.
Paid: If you have the budget, Aqua Data Studio gives you the database management functionality AND all of the visualizations you'll find in Tableau in the 1 product.
(My company shifted from Tableau to Power BI. At first it seemed like a beta product with lower fidelity. But Microsoft has made the whole power suite into a force to be reckoned with... highly recommended)
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#24Free: Power BI is probably going to give you everything you need. It's free, easy to use and provides a lot of features to grow into. Paid: If you have the budget, Aqua Data Studio gives you the database management functionality AND all of the visualizations you'll find in Tableau in the 1 product. (My company shifted from Tableau to Power BI. At first it seemed like a beta product with lower fidelity. But Microsoft…
*Free - just as in "beer".
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#25I am building Jig (https://www.jigdev.com), which you could use for that.
It's based on Observable (https://www.observablehq.com), which has a nice Summary table feature, sounds like what you need (https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/summary-table)
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#26ReTool. The fact it’s interactive and scriptable with JS makes it better IMO than all other BI tools I’ve seen.
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#27Metabase is what you're looking for.
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#28This is a Windows app but can do the job: http://pebblereports.com/
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#29This may be an unpopular opinion, but if you have US$70/mo to spare, it's hard to beat Tableau for this exact use case. "Connect to an arbitrary database, create a view that joins numerous tables (including foreign tables, via blending) together, load to columnar storage on a local SSD for performance if necessary, add arbitrary derived columns (including well-defined lateral lookups for things like 'annotate this ac…
Anything solved by tableau is as easily solved by Excel, which likewise supports direct SQL connections. The template graphs & incorporation of function logic, for versatility & business availability make it no contest. Though Tableau has some gorgeous templates, it doesn't also have DAX & PowerBI.
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#30Reverse question: What tool do you use to get data into the database? Google Forms is great, but if you want the data to go into your own database what tools are available?