PyGWalker
Dev tools
notebook visualization plugin
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
15 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive, useful tool for notebook data exploration
From 3 comments
Mega impressed, I can see myself using this regularly. Charting and viz with matplotlib and pandas transforms is great, but a lot of time there’s a benefit of dumping to…
scrollbar on HNThis is incredible! I've wanted something like this in a notebook for a long time.
thirdmunky on HNWow! this is super cool!
maneesh on HN
Fills a gap between code-based plotting and point-and-click tools
From 2 comments
Mega impressed, I can see myself using this regularly. Charting and viz with matplotlib and pandas transforms is great, but a lot of time there’s a benefit of dumping to…
scrollbar on HNGonna give this a try - I end up doing a lot of complicated data transforms in pandas for plotting purposes. Hopefully this can help out. And minimize the time having to spend…
boringg on HN
Objections
Slow on large datasets, failed with 100K rows and 20 columns
From 1 comment
This was quite slow and never worked for 100K rows 20 columns. Any work on improving performance ?
damey on HN
No VSCode support as of the thread
From 1 comment
According to the Github VSCode support isn't available as yet. Major bummer tbh.
kennethologist on HN
Too closely resembles Tableau, possible legal risk
From 2 comments
This is really cool, but I wonder if it will get into legal trouble because it looks very much like Tableau.
zyl1n on HNThe Tableau algorithm is patented. In particular, the algorithm that chooses the type of the chart depending on the properties of the data. It was developed under the name…
jason_wo on HN
Cannot change column datatypes after loading
From 1 comment
This looks great trying it with the example data [0], but as far as I can figure out, is there no way to change the column datatypes when they are wrongly typed after loading in…
avnigo on HN
Requests
Profiler implementation
From 1 comment
I love this, it seems like the heavy lifting is done by the web app here: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker I’m amazed that this is open source, it’s incredibly useful.…
faizshah on HN
Support for PySpark
From 1 comment
Amazing! Does it work with Pyspark?
selfawareMammal on HN
Writeback to data source
From 1 comment
Is there any support or implantation for writeback functions? We use tableau at work for lots of reporting, and it just pissed me off how expensive many functionalities are if…
TrackerFF on HN
Timeseries handling for high-resolution data
From 1 comment
Awesome, but I just filed #28 (https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker/issues/28) because it makes it a trifle hard to do timeseries visualizations with relatively high res data.
rcarmo on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Apache Superset
From 1 comment
Very cool! Anyone know how this compares to Apache Superset? https://superset.apache.org/
dsjoerg on HN
Does data get uploaded to Kanaries servers
From 1 comment
Does the pandas data frame data get uploaded to kanaries web servers?
thunkshift1 on HN
Can it embed in a React web app
From 1 comment
Can we "embed" these visualizations into a web application -- say a React app? Any guidance on how one would go about that would be appreciated. Thanks!
albert_e on HN
Alternatives named
Apache Superset
From 1 comment
Very cool! Anyone know how this compares to Apache Superset? https://superset.apache.org/
dsjoerg on HN
Tableau
From 1 comment
Mega impressed, I can see myself using this regularly. Charting and viz with matplotlib and pandas transforms is great, but a lot of time there’s a benefit of dumping to…
scrollbar on HN
Mito
From 1 comment
This is very cool. I'm the creator of Mito [1] -- we're also building a data visualization tool in JupyterLab. The Tabluea approach that you took is really interesting! Going to…
aarondia on HN
Datasette
From 1 comment
I was working on building something like this as an extension to Datasette and I still believe that would be a very powerful combination. Maybe this could be embedded with…
20after4 on HN