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Show HN: Graphic-Walker – A different type of open-source alternative to Tableau

148 pointsby loa_observerover 2 years ago
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&#x27;t have to be a large BI, but a lite graphic plugin.<p>GitHub: Kanaries&#x2F;graphic-walker, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kanaries&#x2F;graphic-walker">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Kanaries&#x2F;graphic-walker</a><p>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 &#x2F; 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.<p>Feedbacks and advice are welcome! Discuss with me in github or discord!

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freeman478over 2 years ago
Interesting area and well done on the work !<p>Have you looked at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perspective.finos.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perspective.finos.org&#x2F;</a> ? It has at least some overlaps and can manage pretty big datasets by levering Arrow in WASM in the browser.
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dafelstover 2 years ago
This looks cool, but hopefully does not run afoul of Tableau&#x27;s (and now Salesforce&#x27;s) many patents in that space.<p>IIRC part of the reason certain features couldn&#x27;t make it into Microsoft&#x27;s PowerBI was because of those.
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glutamateover 2 years ago
This looks great! We have previously used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pivottable.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pivottable.js.org&#x2F;</a>, which is in a similar space.
ensemblehqover 2 years ago
Perfect timing as I&#x27;m looking for something like this (was going to build this but happy to contribute!). I&#x27;ll give it a go! Thanks!