Tracecast Open Data Apps
Open source generative data apps
Start new thread
Malachy Donovan

Tracecast Open Data Apps - Open source generative data apps

by•
Hi! I'm Malachy, the founder of Tracecast. This project lets you generate interactive data apps on top of your data, using a Cursor-style AI chat. It has an Apache 2.0 license. The agent generates a fully functional Python notebook under the hood, so you can ask it for anything to better visualize and understand your data, from reactive components to creative visualizations and tabs.

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Malachy Donovan
Maker
📌
The initial use case that spurred this project was business analytics, specifically generating product usage dashboards. This project's main inspiration is Marimo, an open source python notebook that can be "queried with SQL, run as a script, and deployed as an app" [1]. The recent release of Marimo Pair [2] demonstrated the power of connecting AI agents like Claude Code to Marimo notebooks directly. This project seeks to build on that work by incorporating a LangGraph agent with two key abilities: (1) the ability to execute queries against a connected data warehouse (such as Snowflake); (2) the ability to write Marimo notebooks. 4 data sources are currently supported: Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, and Metabase. The code for the database query tools was derived from Google's open source MCP Toolbox for Databases. There is currently no support for MCP. Instead, data query tools are hardcoded. This decision was made to ensure high quality AI queries and limit tool bloat. This is an early stage project, and is configured to only run locally at this time. [1] https://github.com/marimo-team/m... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...