What do you think about GGSQL, or is that not entirely aligned with what you want? They also produce vega-lite JSON as output.
replyI love ggsql, the team behind it, ggplot and the tidyverse in general!
replyI've been mulling extending dbt Charts to support ggplot, and will likely reach out to the team about this in the next few weeks.
The difference is that Vega-Lite, ggsql, ggplot2 are designed to create a single chart. Yes, you can use facet_wrap() to great a series of charts based on a particular variable, but arguably that's still one chart!
What's missing that is table stakes for a BI dashboard: KPIs, text boxes, dropdowns, data sources, governance, and how the charts are arranged on the page and in relation to one another.
In the next few months we hope to ship a JSON schema that represents a dashboard in the same way that a VegaLite does for a single chart.
Does that make sense?
https://openai.com/index/put-data-to-work/ was a compelling demo for me, being able to interact with a artifact and contextually EDA on a series or outliers is lowering the barrier to entry for BI exploration. I think meeting engineers where they work and being flexible and open sourcing these capabilities is really great to see
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