[HN Gopher] Show HN: Graphic-Walker - A different type of open-s...
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Show HN: Graphic-Walker - A different type of open-source
alternative to Tableau
Hello, guys~ I recently developed a data exploration and
visualization app which can be used as a different type of open-
source alternative to Tableau. It is extremely easy to embed in
your apps just as a react component. The original purpose is to
develop a lite plugin that can be easily embedded in most cases, it
doesn't have to be a large BI, but a lite graphic plugin. GitHub:
Kanaries/graphic-walker, https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker
The main features implemented: * A user-friendly drag-and-drop-
based interaction for exploratory data analysis with
visualizations. * A grammar of graphics-based visual analytic user
interface where users can build visualization from low-level visual
channel encodings. * A Data Explainer explains why some patterns
occur / what may cause them. * Using web workers to handle
computation tasks which allows you to use it as a pure front-end
app. And you can use it in your app as a react component:h me in
github or discord. Feedbacks and advice are welcome! Discuss with
me in github or discord!
Author : loa_observer
Score : 82 points
Date : 2023-01-10 14:01 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| freeman478 wrote:
| Interesting area and well done on the work !
|
| Have you looked at https://perspective.finos.org/ ? It has at
| least some overlaps and can manage pretty big datasets by
| levering Arrow in WASM in the browser.
| loa_observer wrote:
| It's a cool project, thanks for sharing. graphic-walker focuses
| more on a Grammar of Graphics based graphic system, not a
| chart-based system.
|
| But for performance in the browser, I am also researching ways
| to handle large datasets in the browser, such as duckdb-wasm.
|
| Another project I am working on, called RATH is facing more
| challenging performance issues because it is designed to
| automate the exploration of data to find insights and causal
| relations by machine. It currently is using web worker and
| indexedDB to implement a lite cube service in the browser, but
| it is not enough.
|
| https://github.com/kanaries/rath
|
| Thanks for your advice, I will continue to improve the both
| computation and render performance in browser.
| dafelst wrote:
| This looks cool, but hopefully does not run afoul of Tableau's
| (and now Salesforce's) many patents in that space.
|
| IIRC part of the reason certain features couldn't make it into
| Microsoft's PowerBI was because of those.
| tomalaci wrote:
| You can patent data visualization ideas!? And those can be
| actually reinforced? You gotta be kidding me.
|
| I thought there was a condition that for patent to be valid it
| must not be an idea that someone else can easily come up with.
| fourthark wrote:
| Yes, it must not be an "obvious" idea.
|
| However, they must use too narrow a definition of obvious,
| because many obvious things have software patents.
| Moissanite wrote:
| If this is indeed the case, it's just one more nugget of data
| to support the view that patent systems are utterly broken.
| There is nothing novel or inventive about these kinds of BI
| tools which warrants 20+ years of protected monopoly.
| mritchie712 wrote:
| source?
| ensemblehq wrote:
| Perfect timing as I'm looking for something like this (was going
| to build this but happy to contribute!). I'll give it a go!
| Thanks!
| glutamate wrote:
| This looks great! We have previously used
| https://pivottable.js.org/, which is in a similar space.
| Miko75 wrote:
| mHmd mkhTwf y Hmdh
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