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by amcaskill 1002 days ago
If you are interested in this, but would prefer to define reports with a markup language (and SQL), I work on an open source code-based BI tool called Evidence, which might be of interest to you.

It's effectively a static site generator aimed at building automated reports and analysis.

https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

Previous discussions on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 - 97 comments

3 comments

Evidence looks incredible! I would start using it right away except I don't see it having any sort of date range picker / filter capability. Is the concept of being able to let our end users filter / drill into graphs with customized queries at odds with how Evidence works? Or are these things just not built yet?
They are in progress right now, and they are really slick! Will be landing later in October.

If you want to read about / play around with the version of the product that supports that type of thing, it's in a pre-release here:

https://github.com/evidence-dev/template/tree/next

Amazing!
Big fan of evidence, really elegant design. There is also space for both declarative and imperative approaches when it comes to dashboarding / reporting etc.
this is so brilliant! Well done.