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Alternatives to Shiny

Tableau, Dash, Plotly.js, Power BI, and Metabase are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Shiny.
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What is Shiny and what are its top alternatives?

It is an open source R package that provides an elegant and powerful web framework for building web applications using R. It helps you turn your analyses into interactive web applications without requiring HTML, CSS, or JavaScript knowledge.
Shiny is a tool in the Business Intelligence category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Shiny

  • Tableau
    Tableau

    Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. Connect to almost any database, drag and drop to create visualizations, and share with a click. ...

  • Dash
    Dash

    Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. ...

  • Plotly.js
    Plotly.js

    It is a standalone Javascript data visualization library, and it also powers the Python and R modules named plotly in those respective ecosystems (referred to as Plotly.py and Plotly.R). It can be used to produce dozens of chart types and visualizations, including statistical charts, 3D graphs, scientific charts, SVG and tile maps, financial charts and more. ...

  • Power BI
    Power BI

    It aims to provide interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards. ...

  • Metabase
    Metabase

    It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating. ...

  • Metabase
    Metabase

    It is an easy way to generate charts and dashboards, ask simple ad hoc queries without using SQL, and see detailed information about rows in your Database. You can set it up in under 5 minutes, and then give yourself and others a place to ask simple questions and understand the data your application is generating. ...

  • Dataform
    Dataform

    Dataform helps you manage all data processes in your cloud data warehouse. Publish tables, write data tests and automate complex SQL workflows in a few minutes, so you can spend more time on analytics and less time managing infrastructure. ...

  • Looker
    Looker

    We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way. ...

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Tableau

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PROS OF TABLEAU
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Looking for the best analytics software for a medium-large-sized firm. We currently use a Microsoft SQL Server database that is analyzed in Tableau desktop/published to Tableau online for users to access dashboards. Is it worth the cost savings/time to switch over to using SSRS or Power BI? Does anyone have experience migrating from Tableau to SSRS /or Power BI? Our other option is to consider using Tableau on-premises instead of online. Using custom SQL with over 3 million rows really decreases performances and results in processing times that greatly exceed our typical experience. Thanks.

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Hello everyone,

My team and I are currently in the process of selecting a Business Intelligence (BI) tool for our actively developing company, which has over 500 employees. We are considering open-source options.

We are keen to connect with a Head of Analytics or BI Analytics professional who has extensive experience working with any of these systems and is willing to share their insights. Ideally, we would like to speak with someone from companies that have transitioned from proprietary BI tools (such as PowerBI, Qlik, or Tableau) to open-source BI tools, or vice versa.

If you have any contacts or recommendations for individuals we could reach out to regarding this matter, we would greatly appreciate it. Additionally, if you are personally willing to share your experiences, please feel free to reach out to me directly. Thank you!

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Dash

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PROS OF DASH
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    Dozens of API docs and Cheat-Sheets
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    Great for offline use
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    Works with Alfred
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    Excellent documentation
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    Quick API search
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    Fast
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    Good integration with Xcode and AppCode
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    Great for mobile dev work
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    Plotly.js

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    PROS OF PLOTLY.JS
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      Bindings to popular languages like Python, Node, R, etc
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      Integrated zoom and filter-out tools in charts and maps
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      Great support for complex and multiple axes
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      Powerful out-of-the-box featureset
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      Beautiful visualizations
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      Active user base
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      Impressive support for webgl 3D charts
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      Charts are easy to share with a cloud account
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      Webgl chart types are extremely performant
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      Interactive charts
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      Easy to use online editor for creating plotly.js charts
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      Publication quality image export
    CONS OF PLOTLY.JS
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      Terrible document

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    We use Plotly (just their open source stuff) for Zulip's user-facing and admin-facing statistics graphs because it's a reasonably well-designed JavaScript graphing library.

    If you've tried using D3.js, it's a pretty poor developer experience, and that translates to spending a bunch of time getting the graphs one wants even for things that are conceptually pretty basic. Plotly isn't amazing (it's decent), but it's way better than than D3 unless you have very specialized needs.

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    Here is my stack on #Visualization. @FusionCharts and Highcharts are easy to use but only free for non-commercial. Chart.js and Plotly are two lovely tools for commercial use under the MIT license. And D3.js would be my last choice only if a complex customized plot is needed.

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    Power BI

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    PROS OF POWER BI
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      Cross-filtering
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      Powerful Calculation Engine
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      Access from anywhere
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      Intuitive and complete internal ETL
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      Database visualisation
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      Azure Based Service
    CONS OF POWER BI
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      Looking for the best analytics software for a medium-large-sized firm. We currently use a Microsoft SQL Server database that is analyzed in Tableau desktop/published to Tableau online for users to access dashboards. Is it worth the cost savings/time to switch over to using SSRS or Power BI? Does anyone have experience migrating from Tableau to SSRS /or Power BI? Our other option is to consider using Tableau on-premises instead of online. Using custom SQL with over 3 million rows really decreases performances and results in processing times that greatly exceed our typical experience. Thanks.

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      Which among the two, Kyvos and Azure Analysis Services, should be used to build a Semantic Layer?

      I have to build a Semantic Layer for the data warehouse platform and use Power BI for visualisation and the data lies in the Azure Managed Instance. I need to analyse the two platforms and find which suits best for the same.

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      Metabase

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        Database visualisation
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        Open Source
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        Easy setup
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        Dashboard out of the box
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        Free
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        Simple
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        Support for many dbs
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        Easy embedding
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        Easy
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        It's good
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        AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal
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        BI doesn't get easier than that
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        Google analytics integration
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        Multiple integrations
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        Easy set up
      CONS OF METABASE
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        Harder to setup than similar tools

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      Need to create a dashboard with a variety of charts having a good drill-down feature with good UI/UX and easy to manage users and roles with some authentication. I am confused between Superset and Metabase, so please suggest.

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      PROS OF METABASE
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        Database visualisation
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        Open Source
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        Easy setup
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        Dashboard out of the box
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        Free
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        Simple
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        Support for many dbs
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        Easy embedding
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        Easy
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        It's good
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        AGPL : wont help with adoption but depends on your goal
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        BI doesn't get easier than that
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        Google analytics integration
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        Multiple integrations
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        Easy set up
      CONS OF METABASE
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        Harder to setup than similar tools

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      Need to create a dashboard with a variety of charts having a good drill-down feature with good UI/UX and easy to manage users and roles with some authentication. I am confused between Superset and Metabase, so please suggest.

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          PROS OF LOOKER
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          CONS OF LOOKER
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