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Re: Apache Superset

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post #101

It's been a few years since I evaluated superset. Did they ever resolve drilldown (filter for one chart on a page, populate to all charts)?

Yep... there's Drill By, which is more flexible than drill-down. Rather than having to specify a strict hierarchy of drilling "levels" you can pick columns, hierarchical or otherwise, to drill into.

Re: Apache Superset

#122

Does anybody know why Superset started trending today? Is there a major release?

There is a major release on the horizon (4.0) and there were just a couple of patch releases for the 3.x variants. I'm surprised to see it trending too, but I'm happy about it. More people need to know that Open Source BI is here, and here to win.

Re: Apache Superset

#123

How would you compare Superset with PowerBI for analytics and CSS integration? Trying to develop features and advanced analytics capabilities into an app?

You can style dashboards with CSS as much as you'd like, though there are some limitations (canvas/webGL elements). I wrote a whole blog post on it: https://preset.io/blog/customizing-superset-dashboards-with-...

If you want to style the whole application, you can fork the repo and go bananas. If you're looking for theming, there's more to be done yet on that front, and I wrote an article on that too: https://preset.io/blog/theming-superset-progress-update/

Re: Apache Superset

#125
post #40

I wish more projects had guided tour videos that demonstrated the power of the tool in the hands of an expert user. Not "get started" but "why should I care". Wes McKinney used to have an excellent 5 minute introduction to pandas in this genre.

You can check this out. This is a Preset Demo, but shows quite a bit of Superset within Preset (which offers multiple instances of Superset as "Workspaces") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HwGnC1rU8

Re: Apache Superset

#126

Superset is powerful, but I wonder why they don't fix "papercuts", e.g., misaligned pixels on a spinner, or inability to copy a value from a table's cell, or non-monospace font for numbers in a table, etc. There are hundreds of small annoyances in the product.

We try! We also accept PRs and Issues if there are things bugging people, of course. It's always a balancing act between building some new feature that people are clamoring for, or fixing those cosmetic issues that always crop up.

Re: Apache Superset

#127

This looks really good! How does it compare to Tableau?

Well, it's free! Or significantly cheaper even if you opt to use Preset to run a hosted/managed/compliant version of it, and not have to deal with config/security/upgrades/migrations. This article is a year old, but it might help a bit: https://preset.io/blog/apache-superset-vs-tableau/

Re: Apache Superset

#128
post #9

Has anyone tried both this and Metabase? I've used Metabase in a few projects and I find it very nice. This seems more powerful, perhaps? Is it worth it for BI on small datasets?

Yes, I am at a company using Metabase, but I have a decent amount of experience with Superset (albeit from many years ago). The reason we chose Metabase was that it had table joins, while Superset doesn't (unless it has added them since I used it). It also looks a bit sleeker. But I strongly prefer Superset; I found that with Metabase I had to turn a lot of things off to make it usable (Let me see "the_table" not "Th…

Superset lets you join tables within the same database. If you want to do cross-DB joins, we have a new (beta) in-memory meta-DB that lets you do this, but we generally see and recommend people using things like Trino for this.

Re: Apache Superset

#129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were both made by Airbnb and then open-sourced, which is the similarity I assume they meant

They were also more specifically authored by the same individual!

Maxime, the original author of Airflow/Superset, is also the CEO of Preset (where I work), so he/we are still working on Superset every day :)

Re: Apache Superset

#130
post #64

Had a very good experience with Superset. Superset allowed us to replace Tableau and not looking back Took me a while figure out how to embed it into my app using Superset Embedded SDK. Superset Embedded SDK - "Embedded SDK allows you to embed dashboards from Superset into your own app, using your app's authentication. Embedding is done by inserting an iframe, containing a Superset page, into the host application." h…

I’d like to see these types of apps start offering SVG embedding of things like graphs. Frames are such a pain.

That's probably not trivial, but it seems plausible. The beauty of open source is that you can help contribute this if you're fired up about it!
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