We use metabase heavily at work. However where it seems like all these tools fall down is organization around the hundreds of dashboards and questions. I wish it had like a built wiki or something to build out more navigation. Anyone know of any good ways to do that?
Apache Superset
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Re: Apache Superset
#132> Superset is fast, lightweight, intuitive, and loaded with options that make it easy for users of all skill sets to explore and visualize their data, from simple line charts to highly detailed geospatial charts. I tried Superset a few years back, and maybe it's changed since then, but intuitive is about the last thing I'd use to describe it. Things which I could figure out in a few minutes on any other BI tool liter…
Had a similar experience with Superset. A few others have mentioned Metabase and I agree it's better, but if you're looking for a different approach to data, check out Definite (https://www.definite.app/). It's a "data stack in a box". A few things we're doing differently:
1. Built-in data warehouse - We spin up a duckdb database for you to load data to
2. 500+ connectors - You don't need to buy a separate ETL and you can pull in all your data (e.g. Postgres, Stripe, HubSpot, Zendesk, etc.) automatically
3. Semantic layer - Define dimensions, measures, and joins in one place. We have pre-built models for all the sources we support (e.g. the Stripe model already has measures for MRR, churn, etc.)
4. Simple BI - Build a table with the data you want and generate visuals off that table
I'm mike@definite.app if you have any questions.
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The Apache foundation is way larger than just the server
Yes, I agree. However a lot of their forward facing projects seem to be effective abandon-ware (few people interested in contributing, competing more popular solutions based on forks, or just no longer relevant). These projects don't give the apache foundation an appearance of importance or relevance, rather they make it look rather rundown.
The Apache Foundation also takes on projects that are literally abandoned. It acts as an umbrella that takes over hosting a project for commercial actors that can no longer develop it, but want to at least give existing users a open source (Apache License) version of the software to continue with/depend on.
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We use ECharts in our open source BI tool (Evidence) and it's a great library. Has helped us build a declarative syntax for viz which can be version controlled ( https://evidence.dev ) Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 (97 comments)
Looks great! Reminds me Obsidian DataView but with charts https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing
We're fans of Obsidian! DataView looks cool - love the ability to define the tables in code inline in the markdown. That's similar to how we inline DuckDB WASM SQL queries in markdown: https://docs.evidence.dev/core-concepts/queries/
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#135Here is a fantastic video made by Soumil Shah, using MinIO+Hudi+StarRocks+Superset. It is amazing to have an interactive query experience on a data lake directly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkKBzrQTKx0
Thanks for sharing, it's so exciting to see so many OSS BI frameworks
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use ECharts in our open source BI tool (Evidence) and it's a great library. Has helped us build a declarative syntax for viz which can be version controlled ( https://evidence.dev ) Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 (97 comments)
Looks great! Reminds me Obsidian DataView but with charts https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing
I love Obsidian.
The Markdown Markup typing experience is just so good compared to e.g. Slack, Reddit and other markdown-esque tools
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is that new? Last time I checked this was the major downside from superset
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#138Wow, those Apache guys have so many projects. Of course, they've been at it for years, starting with the Apache web server, then Tomcat, etc., and also, many projects were first developed outside and then handed over to them, for whatever reasons.
And sometimes projects are handed to them to die. The way they (mis)handle OpenOffice is unforgivable.
Interesting, did not know.
In what way, any details?
Not been tracking that or using OpenOffice for a while.
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#140Had 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…
eCharts is awesome. We moved from plotly after using it for several months to echarts at https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve and are super happy.