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Business intelligence as code: build fast, interactive data visualizations in SQL and markdown

26 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 22 comments · first 2021-08-26 · latest 2026-10-24

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  1. We’ve been using evidence ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ) for this. You can have agents build an ad hoc dashboard, or if it is worth sharing you can commit it.
    comment by zerd · 2026-10-24 · in Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
  2. …products in the space. Some that come to mind that are potentially tangentially related/similar: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
    comment by MuffinFlavored · 2026-05-02 · in Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
  3. We use ECharts extensively in Evidence ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ). Overall has been a delight.
    comment by amcaskill · 2025-04-08 · in Apache ECharts
  4. …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
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-12-23 · in Whither Dashboard Design?
  5. We use a similar “baked data” approach with Duck DB + a static site generator in evidence https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-11-26 · in Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll
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    Show HN: Open-Source BI as Code
    story by amcaskill · 2024-05-15 · 0 comments
  7. …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…
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-03-11 · in SQLPage – Building a full web application with nothing but SQL queries [video]
  8. …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)…
    comment by hughess · 2024-02-27 · in Is Tableau Dead?
  9. …curious, we documented the process of selecting a charting library after assessing several options: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/136
    comment by hughess · 2024-02-18 · in A love letter to Apache Echarts
  10. ▲ 2
    Evidence, a static site generator for data apps
    story by amcaskill · 2024-02-15 · 0 comments
  11. …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…
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-02-15 · in Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps
  12. …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…
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-01-25 · in PRQL as a DuckDB Extension
  13. …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…
    comment by amcaskill · 2024-01-17 · in Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS
  14. …also be interested in the open-source report publishing tool I’m now working on, Evidence.dev ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ). It’s similarly based on markdown, though uses code fences to execute code, HTML style tags for…
    comment by archiewood · 2023-10-21 · in Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts
  15. I'm working on an OSS BI tool focused on a document form factor. Might be of interest to you. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
    comment by amcaskill · 2023-10-09 · in The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
  16. …impossible to deliver in a dashboard. I’m now working on an open source BI tool, Evidence.dev ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ) which is targeted at these two use cases. It enables you to add context to data inline, design the…
    comment by archiewood · 2023-10-08 · in Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
  17. …is special about it? I come previously ran an analytics team and I work on an open source BI tool ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ) but I have never actually used grafana or come across it when talking to other "business…
    comment by amcaskill · 2023-10-05 · in Ask HN: What software do you need, that doesn't exist?
  18. …interested in this, you might be interested in the code-based BI tool I'm working on, Evidence ( https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence ) The experience is a bit more: Start writing code -> GitHub copilot autocompletes -> Dashboard GIF…
    comment by archiewood · 2023-09-28 · in I gave ChatGPT a screenshot of a SaaS dashboard and it wrote the code for it
  19. …which incorporates a lot of these ideas, and might be of interest to people in this thread. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments…
    comment by amcaskill · 2023-09-28 · in Ask HN: Lessons learned from implementing user-facing analytics / dashboards?
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    Share HN: Markdown to BI – Evidence.dev
    story by ketanip · 2023-09-27 · 1 comment
  21. …to you. It's effectively a static site generator aimed at building automated reports and analysis. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments…
    comment by amcaskill · 2023-09-26 · in Vizro – toolkit for creating modular data visualization applications
  22. …to you. It's effectively a static site generator aimed at building automated reports and analysis. https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence Previous discussions on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments…
    comment by amcaskill · 2023-09-26 · in Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens
  23. Yes, since the data pipeline is universal, there can be multiple options on the UI, such as https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence , which can regularly build static reports using SQL and data from the database through GitHub Actions.
    comment by Hooopo · 2023-06-21 · in Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action
  24. And it's Open Source: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence I'd also highly recommend Blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer if you are into the Ruby on Rails world. It's super solid, and it's been an indispensable tool integrated to…
    comment by stanislavb · 2023-04-20 · in Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code
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    What are the 5 hottest dbt Repositories one should star on GitHub 2022?
    story by floriankuwala · 2022-06-15 · 0 comments
  26. Issue opened! https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence/issues/94
    comment by amcaskill · 2021-08-26 · in Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts