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Ask HN: What data visualization tools do you use?
My Tableau license at work expired, and I had been expirimenting with creating dashboards for my personal data in it. Since my company will not be renewing it, I need to use something else.
What tools do you like? I'm a programmer, so things like D3 and matplotlib are great too.
- NoOneNew 6y agoPretty sure I'll get shit for this one. I like Microsoft BI. It's easy and quick to slap charts together, filter, organize, etc. It can import a crazy amount of file formats and DBs. The stand alone is free and exports pdfs you can decently design. I mostly use it privately for investigating data. So my report generation knowledge isnt deep. If you want to use the cloud services, that costs a bit. They update just about every month with some new features. I find quarterly is when you see significant changes.
- navait 6y agoNo, it's great. I assumed Power BI cost a lot of money and wouldn't have considered it.
- NoOneNew 6y agoThe free version has never limited me in any way for my needs. Theres a cloud, sharing dashboard thing that costs money, but I never needed it since I only need to share static pdf reports.
- rboyd 6y agoGrafana, Kibana
- vietjtnguyen 6y agoOutputting vnlog, using those tools to filter, and then plotting using feedgnuplot have covered most of my visualization needs. https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
- kowlo 6y agoD3.js(https://d3js.org https://d3js.org), Chord Pro (https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/ https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/), Plotly (https://plotly.com https://plotly.com), Plotly Dash (https://plotly.com/dash/ https://plotly.com/dash/)
- chordol 6y agohttps://www.metabase.com/ https://www.metabase.com/ It’s open source BI tool which works nice out of the box and it’s low maintenance. Dashboards are you easy to create. It connects to a bunch of DBs.
- ploika 6y agoR Shiny is another good option that hasn't been mentioned yet. If you just want to amuse yourself building a "works on my machine" dashboard you can't go far wrong with it.
- msantos 6y agoHaven't done much BI work recently, but normally my approach boils down to: a) OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) for cleaning and filtering - i.e. exploring and making sense of new data dumps b) Grafana for dashboards, once the data structures are defined. c) looking forward to this Pinterest-backed data explorer https://www.querybook.org/ https://www.querybook.org/
- MmdYw 6y agoSeaborn,Superset R GGPlot2
- sails 6y agoSuperset and Redash worth a look. I'd go superset if you are comfortable with python but want some of the prebuilt stuff that Tableau gives you.