My Tableau license at work expired, and I had been expirimenting with creating dashboards for my personal data in it. Since my company will not be renewing it, I need to use something else.<p>What tools do you like? I'm a programmer, so things like D3 and matplotlib are great too.
Pretty sure I'll get shit for this one. I like Microsoft BI. It's easy and quick to slap charts together, filter, organize, etc. It can import a crazy amount of file formats and DBs. The stand alone is free and exports pdfs you can decently design. I mostly use it privately for investigating data. So my report generation knowledge isnt deep. If you want to use the cloud services, that costs a bit. They update just about every month with some new features. I find quarterly is when you see significant changes.
Outputting vnlog, using those tools to filter, and then plotting using feedgnuplot have covered most of my visualization needs.<p><a href="https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog</a><p><a href="https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot</a>
<a href="https://www.metabase.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.metabase.com/</a>
It’s open source BI tool which works nice out of the box and it’s low maintenance. Dashboards are you easy to create. It connects to a bunch of DBs.
Haven't done much BI work recently, but normally my approach boils down to:<p>a) OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) for cleaning and filtering - i.e. exploring and making sense of new data dumps<p>b) Grafana for dashboards, once the data structures are defined.<p>c) looking forward to this Pinterest-backed data explorer <a href="https://www.querybook.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.querybook.org/</a>
R Shiny is another good option that hasn't been mentioned yet. If you just want to amuse yourself building a "works on my machine" dashboard you can't go far wrong with it.