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I am looking for an interactive exploratory tool to embed in a commercial application. I am looking for a commercial-friendly licensed open source alternative to the wonderful Tableau system

Paolo Bozzola
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    Irony: first result on Google, exactly matches what I want to find out. Closed as not constructive. – Irwin Jan 31 '13 at 13:07
  • There is this D3 Chart builder - Tableau like and web based https://my.infocaptor.com/free_data_visualization.php – Nilesh Oct 09 '14 at 20:28
  • Check out this [similar question over at the SE statistics and data analysis site](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/44204/does-anyone-know-any-good-open-source-software-for-visualizing-data-from-databas) – user56reinstatemonica8 Dec 03 '14 at 10:07
  • @Irwin true of many promising stack overflow questions these days. – Landon Kuhn Dec 11 '15 at 20:58
  • [Syncfusion Dashboards[(http://www.syncfusion.com/products/dashboard) are an option. Free community license available. – Davis Jebaraj Jan 24 '16 at 18:24

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Take a look at Pentaho. It's built from open source parts so you should be able to reuse parts of that. There's also R, though that is really more of a statistical programming framework than an ready-to-use exploratory tool.

If you're looking for something that's as easy to use as Tableau though, I'm afraid you won't find any open source solutions.

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You can build interactive exploratory visualizations in the browser with D3.

Jeff Hammerbacher
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  • Have you used both D3 and Tableau, @Jeff? Wondering what the trade offs are. Tableau definitely seems easier to use but much harder to automate. – Ramy Jul 26 '11 at 21:28
  • @Jeff D3 is really for publishing, whereas Tableau-like tools also have an exploratory component. – philshem Oct 11 '15 at 08:52
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    D3 is nothing like Tableau. Tableau isn't nearly as powerful and flexible as D3, and D3 isn't nearly as friendly for beginners as the drag-and-drop Tableau interface, or useful for "exploratory" analysis. They both make charts, but the use-cases are totally different. – slang Nov 11 '15 at 03:40