Hm... That's nice and all, but why this particular technology stack? How do you typically use internal business data? Is javascript really the best language for

Hm... That's nice and all, but why this particular technology stack? How do you typically use internal business data? Is javascript really the best language for mucking about with large datasets? There is nothing wrong with building abstractions though. In the end, they will need to be complex too, to be generic enough. I am not sure I like the model though, especially when looking at the advanced examples - it looked like there was a lot of imperative coding going on. An alternative is using R for analysis work. I think that the hard part is typically getting the data and getting it into shape for plotting. Having done that I am a few lines of code from generating nice charts with ggplot2. As an example, I have some small scripts that I run (myself or by jenkins) on a somewhat regular basis. They generate and update a bunch of static images attached to Confluence pages, using some loaders in java and analysis and render in R. They images look extra nice with theme_xkcd :-)