On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:42:07 +1100 Tennessee Leeuwenburg via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote:
> https://orange.biolab.si/ is what I was thinking of earlier > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 12:39, Toby Corkindale via luv-main < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 12:02, h via luv-main <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I'm a linux hobbyist who has tinkered with postgis and apache to > > > manipulate data for display in QGis and as tables and charts using > > > apache. - I like to think I have a reasonable knowledge of > > > databases but don't do it all day every day ;) > > > > > > I have recently been introduced to Tableau > > > (https://www.tableau.com) which operates on Windows and on Mac > > > clients. It seems to me to be a GUI for what I do with Postgis > > > and apache (with a bit of R functionality added - Learning R is > > > on my 'to do' list) > > > > > > Does anyone know about tableau, and whether there is a FOSS > > > equivalent? > > > > Tableau is popular with data analysts, but it's one of the most > > expensive packages around. > > It has quite a lot of features around data discovery, and > > enterprise-compatible ways to create and share reports, and > > integrates with a lot of data sources -- but I don't think you're > > using those sort of premium features. > > > > If you find a FOSS package that manages to incorporate the data > > discovery stuff from Tableau then I'd be interested to hear of it. > > > > As others have mentioned, Kibana is probably the most similar in > > terms of creating reports - but I believe it is tightly coupled to > > Elasticsearch, so that's a whole new syntax to learn. > > > > Other projects worth mentioning are Google's Data Studio, and > > Periscope Data -- neither are FOSS, but they're compatible with > > Linux and I think free for personal use / low levels of usage. > > > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > > luv-main mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > > > > A belated many thanks. I am reading up on them at the moment... many thanks again _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
