evidence

We’re working on a static site generator for data analysts called evidence. It’s an alternative to conventional BI tools. Procedurally generating pages from data and linking them together is a core part of the offering. In many applications this is far easier for users than presenting them with a conventional filter interface. GitHub: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781

We use a similar “baked data” approach with Duck DB + a static site generator in evidence https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

If you are a data analyst interested in making web apps, you might be interested in my OSS project, Evidence, which is a Static Site Generator for building reports and data apps with SQL and markdown. Repo (3K stars): 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

You might be interested in Evidence, a SQL-based open source BI tool where all content is version-controllable. Disclaimer: I’m one of the maintainers. A lot of companies use Evidence for customer facing and embedded reporting. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence Previous HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 (97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 (91 comments)

We used ECharts to build our charting library at Evidence and it’s been a great experience overall (https://evidence.dev). We started with D3 and a few other tools, but felt that we get a lot more out of the box with ECharts, like interactivity and an events API. ECharts is also a lot more extensible than people give it credit for. If anyone is curious, we documented the process of selecting a charting library after assessing several options: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136

One of the founders of Evidence here. Thanks the kind words Mike - that means a lot coming from you. I think that distinction is right -- we are focused on making a framework that is easy to use with a data analyst skill set, which generally means as little javascript as possible. As an example, the way you program client-side interactions in Evidence is by templating SQL which we run in duckDB web assembly, rather than by writing javascript. Evidence is also open source, for anyone who's interested. Repo: 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

I'm quite excited about this, and would also love to have it distributed as an NPM package. I work on an OSS web framework for reporting/ decision support applications (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence), and we use WASM duckDB as our query engine. Several folks have asked for PRQL support, and this looks like it could be a pretty seamless way to add it.

This looks awesome, congratulations. I think you’re onto something here. I work on an OSS reporting and analytics tool (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) and the amount of time and effort that goes into a really good “print pdf”, and how valuable people find it, has been one of the more surprising parts of the project to me.