[HN Gopher] Show HN: Graphic-Walker - A different type of open-s... ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-01-10 23:01 UTC)