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is an open source framework for building data products with SQL and markdown

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⭐️ Evidence has reached 4,000 stars on GitHub ⭐️
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Evidence Universal SQL is live. Try it out:
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DuckDB is increasingly being built into every data tool, but DuckDB isn't designed to be used as a cloud data warehouse @motherduck is solving that problem, and they’re doing it in a delightful, uniquely DuckDB way Today, we're excited to share a new native connector for
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Evidence Universal SQL is coming! This brings multi data source support, and fast interactivity to Evidence Sign up for the community preview next week here:
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In the past year, Evidence has fundamentally changed operating with data For reports that are better for developers, and better for the people reading them, we built Universal SQL: 1. Evidence ingests data from any data source, and caches it in a common storage format (parquet)
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The Evidence team is at the summer offsite, this year hosted in Prince Edward County, Canada As per tradition, day 2 is a full day hackathon
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Just released: support for @duckdb 0.7.1 and a new Sankey Diagram component #DuckDB
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Officially the "most fun to be around" BI tool
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Alex Prejean
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New data tool quadrant just dropped
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Here are the hackathon projects 1/ @AdamMcaskill : Dark Mode for Evidence
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The Evidence team is at the summer offsite, this year hosted in Prince Edward County, Canada As per tradition, day 2 is a full day hackathon
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Congrats @motherduck and team on the Series B!
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New release from Evidence Linked Charts - with tooltips that syncronize Subtotal - intermediate totals on tables
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2 years
We’ve just reached the milestone of ⭐1,000 Github stars⭐ on our project! To mark the occasion, we’re contributing $1,000 to support open source software
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Today we released even more ways to customize your Evidence app - improved Tabs, custom value colors, and stacked bar chart label control
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You can now connect @ClickHouseDB to Evidence!
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Archie
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used this to create an @evidence_dev connector for @ClickHouseDB took about 10 minutes!
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"A chart in React is ~100 lines of code to load the data, create the chart component, manage instance state, and display it on the page. In Evidence, creating a chart or table is only 4 lines of code"
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Ethan
2 months
New blog post diving deeper into building web apps for analytics use cases is now live! Link below I write about how painful it is to write a user facing analytics app using React as a Data Analyst and how @duckdb + @evidence_dev make it easy and enjoyable.
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coming into 2024 hot with some more superfast filter components: 1. <TextInput/> component to filter charts, tables, etc
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We've been working on our maps, With the latest release, maps are faster to load, smoother to zoom and pan
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Join @archieemwood and @mehd_io live now to see how to build an interactive data app with Evidence and DuckDB
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We've updated our branding! Evidence's mission is to enable richer communication with data. This means the ability to visualize data with charts, explain data through writing, and design polished end-user data experiences
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Just blazed through 3,000 stars on GitHub 📈 Why are people here? Simple Building data applications using today's tooling sucks We're building tomorrow's
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You can now create customizable Heatmaps and CalendarHeatmaps in Evidence Full release list here:
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"Data scientists, write SQL queries every day, but the solution they’d want is a power tool with version control" If only such a tool existed...
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Tom Blomfield
7 months
I’ve noticed a pattern with some AI startups that are producing flashy demos with very low customer engagement. They are usually solving occasional problems. An example is “use natural language to query a database”. Most employees at a tech company don’t actually write SQL
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We strongly agree
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Tobias Müller
10 months
My prediction for dashboards in 2024 is that backends will get „dumber“ and instead of being queried n times in parallel will just ship the entire dataset to the frontend, e.g. as Arrow stream to @duckdb WASM. Then query the data in milliseconds…
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A great app showing the versatility of Evidence's viz
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Archie
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have been waiting until someone grabbed the olympics subdomain on @evidence_dev was not disappointed
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Selling data is complex. Your buyers need to understand the data you offer, but they can't query it. Create explorable sales demos with Evidence
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The newest version of Evidence comes with more presets for date ranges, compact mode for tables, and page-level control of the sidebar navigation
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We're on live with Motherduck + Dagster: Local Dev + Cloud Prod
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Evidence now supports plugins! This means you can easily make your own components and publish them so anyone can use them. To start, we've published this slick France choropleth map component
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Evidence: the fastest way to deploy data to your users
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In 2024, it takes 5 min to write some SQL and Markdown and deploy a beautiful dashboard. Here's a dashboard of @huggingface hub stats powered by @evidence_dev and @duckdb
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We’re growing our team, and looking for talented, ambitious team members who are excited by the challenge of building a new approach to business intelligence. Details on the open roles in this thread:
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In our most recent release, we introduced slider inputs and a download data component - a couple more pieces that make it easier to build interactive data apps.
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10 months
“Evidence is a lightweight JS framework designed for building data apps using Markdown and SQL. You simply construct your dashboard using existing components, incorporate them using SQL within your markdown, and you're set!” A very cool article on the future of BI by @mehd_io
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Explore the new Bi-as-code trend in data 📊 @mehd_io 's latest blog covers dashboard creation with @duckdb & MotherDuck, and dives into tools like @rilldata , @evidence_dev , and @streamlit . Get coding! 👨‍💻
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We've just passed 2,500 stars on @github ! ⭐️ Every day more companies are choosing to define their data visualization layer in code. Thanks to everyone in our community for supporting the project!
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We recently launched interactive maps in Evidence with 4 new map components: AreaMap, PointMap, BubbleMap, and BaseMap Check out the blog to learn more:
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@motherduck “If you have yet to try MotherDuck, we'd encourage you to do so. From the unbelievably fast data profiling built into their SQL IDE to the shockingly good AI SQL error fixer, there's a lot to be excited about.” Full Post:
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"Your dashboard is a software asset that should be versioned, controlled, tested, and deployed across multiple environments." 💯
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Mehdi Ouazza
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It's still fascinating how the data world lags behind in adopting software engineering best practices. Your SQL query is a software asset that should be versioned, controlled, tested, and deployed across multiple environments. Your dashboard is a software asset that should be
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Evidence plugins for all your data!
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Archie
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threw together an Evidence plugin for @stripe data really fast - took me about an hour (only test data here)
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Who's working on this? A: we are 👇
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if you've used a BI tool before you know the pain of waiting for a dashboard to load but why does this happen? and does it have to?
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finally made it @ExcelHumor
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We're live! Join us for a preview of Universal SQL
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Sometimes the best way to draw attention to data is using colour. You can now use conditional formatting and delta indicators in data tables
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This week, we made it easier than ever to build reports in Evidence - you can now query local CSV files. Here's a quick example using car price data from FRED
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Evidence is for charts that… just look great
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Jacob Matson
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aww hell yeah look at this grid!
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How many queries have Evidence users run? Obviously only one way to find out! #dogfooding
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@AdamMcaskill @zachstence @ud3sh 4/ @archieemwood : Evidence New Create an Evidence project by dropping a csv into the browser you can use it at
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Evidence’s open source software already powers reporting for data teams around the world, from scaling startups to huge enterprises We’re launching on ProductHunt, and would love your support in helping spread the word to the teams that need it 👉
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It's never been easier to use components in Evidence. This week we released: - Slash commands for our VS Code extension - Number/date formatting in components, including support for Excel format codes
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Our co-founder @seanhughes92 will be giving a lightning talk about Evidence at #OSACon tomorrow. It's a free virtual conference - join us to support open source analytics!
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We're live-streaming the new features for Universal SQL in two hours at 12pm EST Watch 👉 - Multiple Data Sources: 🖇️Join SQL + non-SQL data - Evidence Query Engine: 🦆 @DuckDB in your browser - Interactive Components: 🏎️ Super fast pivot tables
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You can now add 🖊️ Annotations 🖊️ to Evidence charts Add custom highlighting, show targets and thresholds to your charts.
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Straight out of the oven for the Evidence @code extension 1) Install Evidence directly from inside VSCode
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@AdamMcaskill 2/ @zachstence has built Intellisense Autocomplete for Evidence components, props, and documentation, all inline in your IDE
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@AdamMcaskill @zachstence @ud3sh @archieemwood 4/ @kylekodes Presentation Mode A full screen display for your charts
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A very cool site by @voberoi built using Evidence!
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Vikram Oberoi
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. @BuzzFeedNews shut down on May 5th. @jsvine scraped the site's Trending strip every 5 minutes starting mid-Nov 2018. He published the dataset two weeks ago. Here are the longest-trending articles and reporters in that time frame: 🧵some notable things:
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@AdamMcaskill @zachstence 3/ @ud3sh : Deploy Previews Every commit you push creates a new deploy
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Evidence now supports @trinodb and @databricks !
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As with many OSS projects, we’re standing on the shoulders of giants, including @ApacheECharts @sveltejs mdsvex( @evilpingwin ) @duckdb @vite_js tidyjs( @pbesh ) @docusaurus @SheetJS
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Evidence is a vibe
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Andrew "Thesis Completion Fiend" Waller
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@adamcarter naw, it was a lil @evidence_dev project with a CSV data source; of all the places to be writing raw SQL, probably one of the more pleasant
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Stats from the Evidence community on @getdbt usage
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"Au lieu de prendre la donné, de la mettre dans Excel de créer des ‘Bar chart’’ un machin truc pénible… en quelques minutes on arrive à faire le truc" "Instead of the painful export to Excel to make Bar Charts, you can do it [with Evidence] in a few minutes" Vincent Heuschling
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Evidence can now be installed as a utility in @meltanodata ! Big thanks to the Meltano team for setting this up:
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With the latest release Evidence now has: 1. Value labels for bar charts line charts and area charts
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If you list tables on @databricks marketplace, come talk to us about growing your revenue
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Evidence now supports connecting with Microsoft @SQLServer 🔌 For a radically better BI development experience, get started 👉🏼 🔗
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Excellent example of Evidence in action from @mehd_io !
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Explore the rise of Business Intelligence as Code (BI-as-Code) Watch @mehd_io discuss this trend with examples from @streamlit , @evidence_dev , and @RillData with @duckdb / MotherDuck 🦆 🎥🍿
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It runs SQL in your browser When a user interacts with a filter, they don't have to wait for a call to your data warehouse, so the data updates instantly
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Just shipped: Monorepo support for Evidence Cloud If your Evidence project is stored in a subdirectory of your project, you can now deploy it on Evidence Cloud
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We've just shipped the ability to add links and images into tables 🚢
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@ApacheECharts @sveltejs @evilpingwin @duckdb @vite_js @pbesh @docusaurus @SheetJS In particular, our product relies heavily on the awesome ⚡Svelte Kit⚡, which we’re really grateful to @Rich_Harris and team for building
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@ryrobes If you like writing SQL and making charts, you might be interested in Evidence It uses @ApacheECharts under the hood, but assumes your results are from a query.
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. @archieemwood has done a deep dive on business review processes - how to make them more effective with less manual data work - and how Evidence can help with that
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Archie
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When I was a Chief of Staff, one meeting generated more stress than *all the others* in the week. What was it? Our Tuesday AM 📊Weekly Business Review📊 (1/x)
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We're excited about @DataCouncilAI next week. If you're going, we'd love to meet up! Especially if you want to talk about BI-as-code 📈 @seanhughes92 and @archieemwood will be there from Evidence
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100 likes and we’ll ship this as a custom component
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Randall Munroe
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Compact Graphs
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We're live on hacker news!
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All Evidence's db connectors are now supported by SQLTools () It's a great productivity boost for BI-as-code to be able to explore and query your DB without hopping in and out of SQL consoles
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continuing on my vscode extension tour, just published an open source extension for duckdb supports connecting to local, in-memory, and @motherduck instances
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@__AlexMonahan__ @duckdb Yes, @DuckDB has been a huge addition to Evidence!
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We've released a highly requested chart today, the Funnel Chart. This and a whole bunch of new stuff:
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2. Support for @duckdb 0.9.1, which is the current version supported by @motherduck
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Try to create an Evidence app from a CSV
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Here's the full code for that example:
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It supports multiple simultaneous data sources, including all the major warehouses, CSVs, google sheets... ...and you can create your own plugins to hit data APIs directly
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We've just released an update to our mobile experience. Check it out! More info at:
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Our tables now have sort, freetext search and more customization options ✨
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We've also just shipped a bunch of new UI Components, like this new Accordion Component
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@duckdb @motherduck 3. a fresh new layout and feel
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@DaniMermelstein @matsonj @AlexNoonan6 👀 wonder if Evidence could go in here?
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2) Visualization Engineer: This is an opportunity to build the best visualization library in the BI industry. We’re inspired by people like Edward Tufte and Stephen Few, and want to bring those ideas to life through a viz library that’s highly flexible, but with a simple syntax.
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