Evidence - Beautiful reports with just SQL and markdown

Liked the concept of using markdown. Any chance of supporting MongoDB ? At least a workaround to work with MongoDB would be helpful. MongoDB charts are fine but quick reports in markdown with descriptions would be awesome!

Seems great ! Did you have a look at the filters and advanced syntax you can use in streamlit?

Hi everyone, I’m Adam -- one of the makers of Evidence, along with my partner Sean (@hughess). We’ll be hanging out in the comments to answer any questions. Sean and I are data analysts at heart. We started our careers doing analysis in excel and R, and writing up our work in word documents and powerpoint decks. Eventually we needed to graduate to something more scalable, and we moved on to using the tools that would later become known as “the modern data stack”. Tools like BigQuery, dbt, Looker, and Mode. We gained a lot from moving to the modern data stack, but we also felt like we lost something... Dashboards, it turns out, are poor substitutes for handwritten analysis. A handwritten report by an expert analyst presents its most important conclusions, then takes its audience through a persuasive line of reasoning to support them. It drives its audience toward a set of next steps. It’s filled with supporting information, context, definitions, and direction on where to learn more. It builds understanding, trust and confidence. It's just too hard to consistently deliver that type of experience using a drag-and-drop BI tool. Producing content is too slow, maintaining it is too unwieldy, and the "charts on a grid" form factor is too inflexible. Best case, you put some filters on your dashboard and ask your audience to do the analysis themselves. Evidence takes a very different approach. By replacing the drag-and-drop workflow with a flexible markup language, Evidence enables analysts to deliver automated reports that feel like they were handwritten. Want to generate sections in your report for each region of your business? Use a loop. Want to only show a graph when last month's margins were off target? Write a conditional. Need to add commentary that only appears when someone is looking at January's results? No problem. Evidence combines the best features of a static site generator like Jekyll, and a notebook like Jupyter into a package that’s easy for SQL analysts to learn. Sean and I have benefited tremendously from the open source community. Incredible tools like R Studio and dbt have had a huge impact on our careers and our lives. We’re making Evidence open source to carry on that tradition. We aim to build a tool that will appeal to the most sophisticated data teams in the world, and will also feel approachable to someone who is writing her first line of SQL. We have a long way to go but we would love to have you be a part of this journey.

That's a great idea. This framework will simplify the creation of reports.

such a good idea, I wish I came up with it

Wow Great Idea, loved it!

This is so awesome! Seems like the perfect complement to dbt -- a developer native way to build reports with full control. What's next on the roadmap for you folks?

This is super cool!

Congrats on the launch !

This is an amazingly simple idea and product. Absolutely love...

Simply wonderful!

Interesting!

Indeed great!