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by chahex
3916 days ago
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You might want to try out Tibco Spotfire; it is similar to Tableau and Qlik. They do provide some statistical tools (I personally don't know much about it). And they do have a WebPlayer to view the dashboards online. See demos here: http://spotfire.tibco.com/demos |
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It's really good for allowing your end users to explore data - it just requires a lot of development time to make really usable (ie: to make it more than "just a dashboard").
It has been built with R in mind from day 1. They have their own "Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR)" which I don't get to play around with much, but it's an obvious place to start for advanced predictive stuff, machine learning, and general data manipulation. Using the "RinR" package, you can pretty much do anything that R can.
My only absolute HATE with it is the LACK OF FREE SUPPORT/Community. Even though they have a nice "tibbr" (Facebook for businesses, basically) especially for Spotfire support, it's all behind a login wall, so it's not indexed by Google at all and it's not very searchable in my experience. In my opinion, this is a fatal mistake with their entire solution. Forums are amazing. Forum posts stay around forever. Very rarely do you want "the newest" forum post. You usually want a SPECIFIC forum post - making tibbr an awful user experience for support.
Additionally, their OLD forum/community IS indexed by Google, so you'll end up at dead-ends (404s with the exact information you want, conveniently highlighted in Google just before the answer is presented). Only a few people have blogged about it in the past, and even those are usually old versions. Also, basically no one talks about it on StackExchange. So, I just find it really hard to find answers to specific questions - like you might naturally do when programming to get a problem fixed quickly.
That said, it's super flexible and might be worth a look. I have very limited experience with Tableau and Power BI, but those lacked some of the convenience features I was used to when I used them. Personally, I wish I were forced to just program all my data visualizations in R or Python, haha.