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by jorin 5mo ago
Really cool project! Would love to see a standard established for representing visualizations in SQL! I built a whole dashboarding tool on top of the idea: https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/getting-started/ B
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by jorin 7mo ago
shaper leans into doing everything as code. instead of using a custom UI you can use your own editor and AI agent to generate dashboards for you. shaper is for people happy to use code. it doesn't try to provide self-serve functionalit
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by jorin 7mo ago
happy to hear that! pdfs are generated in a headless chrome in the same docker container as shaper itself using chromedp.
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by jorin 7mo ago
hi, dev building shaper here. shaper allows you to visualize data and build dashboards just by writing sql. the sql runs in duckdb so you can use all duckdb features. its for when you are looking for a minimal tool that allows you to just w
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by jorin 7mo ago
hi, dev building Shaper here. I agree re sending reports vs dashboards. Many users use Shaper mostly as UI to filter data and then download a pdf, png or csv file to use elsewhere. We are also currently working on functionality to send out
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by jorin 7mo ago
hi, dev building Shaper here. Both, Shaper and Metabase, can be used to build dashboards for business intelligence functionality and embedded analytics. But the use cases are different: Metabase is feature-rich and has lots of functionality
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by jorin 8mo ago
I built Shaper following Malloy's idea of combining data queries and visualizations. But Shaper uses SQL instead of a custom language. It turns DuckDB into a dashboard builder for when you all you need is SQL. https://github
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by jorin 8mo ago
postgres (without extensions) is slower for analytical queries since it stores data as rows, not columns. Also, duckdb is an in-memory database so it's more comparable to sqlite than postgres.
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Analytics Dashboards as Code with Shaper's New File Workflow(taleshape.com)
1 points by jorin 9mo ago|0 comments
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Build Your Own Bluesky Analytics Dashboard(taleshape.com)
1 points by jorin 1y ago|0 comments
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by jorin 1y ago
Create a secret in the init.dql file https://taleshape.com/shaper/docs/loading-data/#connecting-t...
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by jorin 1y ago
You can use Shaper to query your data in MotherDuck and build dashboards on top of it.
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Turn Your DuckDB Projects into Interactive Dashboards(taleshape.com)
2 points by jorin 1y ago|4 comments
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by jorin 1y ago
Thank you! The SQL-first approach feels great to use so far and plan to keep betting on that with more features such as scheduled workflows, Git integration and AI code generation.
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Open Sourcing Shaper: Minimal Data Platform for Embedded Analytics(github.com)
2 points by jorin 1y ago|2 comments
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by jorin 3y ago
Making effective use of data is non-trivial. Let me share what worked for us.
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by jorin 3y ago
The discussion nicely points out all the things I also ran into over the last 5 years. This motivated me to summarize my experience: https://jorin.me/gettting-started-building-a-data-driven-bus... Thought it might be releva
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by jorin 3y ago
https://jorin.me I build communication tools and write about data and technology. Latest post: Problem Solving Software creates value by solving problems. But effectively solving problems is hard. How can we get better at it? h
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Thoughts on Problem Solving(jorin.me)
4 points by jorin 3y ago|1 comments
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by jorin 3y ago
Software creates value by solving problems. But effectively solving problems is hard. How can we get better at it?
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Update your links to HTTPS now, with this crawler written in Go(github.com)
1 points by jorin 9y ago|0 comments
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Sleepto – An alternative to traditional task schedulers(github.com)
4 points by jorin 9y ago|0 comments
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Automating the Backup of GitHub Repositories Using Ghbackup(dev.to)
2 points by jorin 9y ago|0 comments
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Code Challenge: Follow the dirty money(gist.github.com)
1 points by jorin 10y ago|0 comments
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GitHub backup tool written in Go(github.com)
2 points by jorin 10y ago|0 comments
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A subway ride home(jorin.me)
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What are your most used shell commands?(jorin.me)
3 points by jorin 10y ago|0 comments
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Only HTTPS for one month(jorin.me)
5 points by jorin 11y ago|0 comments
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Script to edit encrypted files (Improvments welcome)(jorin.me)
2 points by jorin 11y ago|0 comments
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Miniflux – Introduction to interesting ideas in React world(jorin.me)
14 points by jorin 11y ago|0 comments

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