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HEX

https://hex.tech/

Drawback: It's expensive.

There are 2 main sections:

  • Logic
  • App

Logic​

It supports python like a jupyter notebook, and much more features are supported.

Table Visualization​

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Chart visualization with data from a data frame​

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Widgets such as multiselect, slider, dropdown, and mapping to python variable​

Similar features also supported in Jupiter Notebook, but requires writing code.

This allows user to pick a input and generate a custom visualization.

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SQL Support​

HEX supports SQL query from SQL databases or pandas data frame.

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App​

All of the functionalities I discussed above come from the Logic Section.

The App section displays output from Logic. It's like echo=FALSE in RMarkdown.

You may select the output to display from Logic.

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Scheduled Run​

Cron job supported.

Job can be added hourly, daily, weekly, monthly.

Notification also supported like a CI pipeline.

Similar to my project cron-crawler-template, but can be done more easily.

Since the script can be run periodically, it your data is time-sentsitive, everytime your audience open the page, the data displayed will always be up to date.

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Embed​

A notebook can be embedded into other web pages using iframe.

Notion embed also supported.

Conclusion​

This is a great app as a always-up-to-date data visualization.

I will used it to display my LeetCode Scraper result.