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Evidence

Business intelligence as code for building interactive data visualizations from SQL and markdown

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License

MIT

Languages
  • JavaScript
  • Svelte
  • TypeScript
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About Evidence

Evidence is an open-source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop business intelligence tools. It generates reports and a website from markdown files, with SQL statements that query your data sources and charts and components rendered from those results.

It supports templated pages for creating many pages from one markdown template, plus loops and If / Else statements for controlling what users see. The result is a code-driven workflow for building data products in SQL and markdown rather than arranging dashboards by hand.

Evidence can be self-hosted, with publish options that include Netlify, Vercel, your own infra, and other static site hosting platforms. It ships with a VS Code extension for starting a project, and install options also include CLI and Docker. The software is MIT licensed.

Key features

  • SQL statements run against your data sources inside markdown files
  • Charts and components render from query results
  • Templated pages generate many pages from one markdown template
  • Loops and If / Else statements control page content

Details

First released
2021
Platforms
Web · CLI · Docker
Self-hosting
Netlify · Vercel · own infra
Deployment
self-hostable · docker
License
MIT
Editor
VS Code extension