There are quite a few really nice tools out there for this kind of data analysis (generally called Business Intelligence, or BI for short). None of them that I

There are quite a few really nice tools out there for this kind of data analysis (generally called Business Intelligence, or BI for short). None of them that I have found are procedural, they are all based on interactive dashboards. I'm sure that there is some scripting or XML formatting required behind the scenes to get the system set up to accept data, but after that it's all point-and-click. The systems that I've seen/evaluated are Needlebase, Birst and Spotfire. None of them are particularly cheap, but if you're in a business where real-time access to data would help your team make better decisions, they could be very valuable.