On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 12:02, h via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> 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