Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data analysts

Re:Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data ana... by bayesian_horse on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:05AM (#28311542)

In my experience, most reporting has to be done as printable PDF or it doesn't exist. There doesn't seem to be a good story for paginated media yet. In the past I've used polyfills for CSS pagination features to generate modestly well formatted PDF documents. Then you can either print it out from the browser or use a headless browser to do the same. Also there are modules on NPM for Latex-style typesetting.

This looks very promising, also with the inclusion of svelte. I'd have to see how well it integrates with Python and R, as far as I can see you'd need to export data from those to make it usable, which is probably easy as well.

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Re:Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data ana... by krishvs on Thursday August 26, 2021 @04:43AM (#28312211)

Absolutely agree with this point. At the company I work for whenever we create reports its always done twice or thrice - a browser version, a pdf that is printable and an excel version for business users to download and play with.

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Re:Launch HN: Evidence (YC S21) – Web framework for data ana... by amcaskill on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:28AM (#28313446)

Thanks for taking a look and for the kind words.

Absolutely, a great PDF export is on the roadmap, and raises a whole raft of tricky issues.

Just an aside, but one of the other features Sean and I really liked in R markdown was the ability to export a single standalone HTML file that you could just email to someone. I’m not sure if we’ll build that, but there are a bunch of cases where you want to send the “real” thing, without actually deploying anything (if that makes sense). It also saves you from the challenges of pagination.

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