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You seem to have a good setup, but if you are looking for a solution to share easily between people, have a look at Metabase. It works pretty well, if your dat

You seem to have a good setup, but if you are looking for a solution to share easily between people, have a look at Metabase. It works pretty well, if your data lives in a DB hosted somewhere and you only want to plot data that can be derived from SQL queries (potentially from tables produced by nightly batch process), and want to allow different people to look at the data via dashboard. I used to do all plotting in Pandas etc locally and share them if required. But with Metabase it is easier to share plots, which are also always fresh. RAWGraphs seems to have a different target audience. Judging by the sponsors, it seems to aim at people who keep their data in Excel and then need a nice plot for a publication or something. So it might be useful as a prototyping tool for scientists who barely code and keep the data they collect in Excel spreadsheets.

zaptheimpaler 5y ago
Metabase looks cool, thanks I'll give it a try.
cormacrelf 5y ago
I second this. I've deployed Metabase once and almost immediately requests for data started coming out of the woodwork, from folks who previously had no knowledge of what kind of information was available or how to ask for it. Visibility is called that for a reason. It's also really easy to self-host. Download the .jar. Whack it on a machine with a wireguard VPN and a route to the DB or somewhere suitable in the cloud. Create a read-only credential. Letsencrypt it & bless it with a DNS name, ideally with some internal-only IP address. Invite your boss to view some live stats on what's happening with the live product. Wait a day or so for them to request that some other underling also gets access or that some Metabase query gain some formal role in a business process. Also watch them have the best week of their manager life, with every kind of stat at their fingertips.

zaptheimpaler 5y ago

Metabase looks cool, thanks I'll give it a try.

cormacrelf 5y ago

I second this. I've deployed Metabase once and almost immediately requests for data started coming out of the woodwork, from folks who previously had no knowledge of what kind of information was available or how to ask for it. Visibility is called that for a reason. It's also really easy to self-host. Download the .jar. Whack it on a machine with a wireguard VPN and a route to the DB or somewhere suitable in the cloud. Create a read-only credential. Letsencrypt it & bless it with a DNS name, ideally with some internal-only IP address. Invite your boss to view some live stats on what's happening with the live product. Wait a day or so for them to request that some other underling also gets access or that some Metabase query gain some formal role in a business process. Also watch them have the best week of their manager life, with every kind of stat at their fingertips.