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Best Free Alternative to Tableau
Thanks for the question. I too have spent a lot of time handcrafting reports and was exposed to Tableau when others at a previous employer used it. I downloaded the trial, worked my way through the ...
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Public API for sunrise/sunset data
Since the sunrise and sunset times are determined by 3 factors, position on the earth in Lat/Long & Altitude, date plus possibly obscuring items like mountains and most services leave out the ...
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might want to log to SQLite databases instead of plain text files for the following reasons:
SQLite is part of the python standard runtime library. Thus, databases can be created, filled and ...
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Stop logging to files. But what system to choose?
You might be able to use:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04
Logstash forwards the logs to the central logging ...
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Best Free Alternative to Tableau
I don't think you have the right approach. You are supposing that an exact clone of Tableau is the best answer. It might not be.
Notice that if Tableau (which I don't know and don't care about) was ...
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Tool to compare the results of an SQL query on two databases
There is a tool called SelectCompare that allows you to compare two queries.
SelectCompare allows to create comparison projects, which define queries against any two data sources that can be ...
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Undelete tools for Windows with high recovery rates
I have used Recuva to recover deleted files on Windows boxes.
It generally works well. It's easy to use, and has a minimal learning curve.
My big complaint with it is that for years they offered a ...
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Are there any data and file storage systems which are Google Drive, Dropbox APIs or S3 for in house use?
ownCloud Enterprise Edition supports Google, Dropbox, and more.
Egnyte HybridCloud supports Google and some other services, but I don't think it integrates with Dropbox
DriveHQ proprietary system ...
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Scanning multiple choices answers from paper
If you are interesting in creating an application that can do this, I reccomend checking out the LEADTOOLS Forms Recognition SDK. This SDK has C DLL and .NET libraries for OMR recognition. The .NET ...
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Software for Respondent-Interactive Mass Data Collection and Verification?
I figured this out by contacting surveygizmo.com's support staff (they're very lovely people, by the way.) I will leave this question open in case anyone is experiencing a similar situation in the ...
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Backup/restore data multiple sets of data for selected Android apps
Helium - App Sync and Backup (originally named Carbon) has a gratis version and can do that:
Helium (source: Google Play; click images for larger variants)
It's quite a while since I last used it ...
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Linux/Windows app for graphing very large amounts of data
On linux, you might find gnuplot to be useful.
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What programming language should I use to generate word lists of Google Ngram raw data
Python is quick and easy to learn plus there are domain specific tools for what you are trying to do as a part of the sci-kit learn package including being able to extract a corpus from an on-line ...
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App to quickly and easily transfer small amount of data from Windows to Android
I would suggest an arbitrary combination of a Windows QR code generator (that can encode arbitrary portions of text) and an Android QR code reader app. I use this combination for exactly the same ...
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Database and Spreadsheet combination
Indeed, combining worksheets and databases, simple scripts are more suitable than Power Query. But easy-to-learn and easy-to-use processing scripts are rare. You can try esProc. I have a small example ...
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Open and visually browse large CSV files
I've been using EmEditor for years. Can open practically any size file (up to 248GB realistically) and can split CSV and other delimited text into columns. With tons of other features.
There's a ...
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What database can I use to store data from sensors?
What about RRDtool? github
What RRDtool does
RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and
graphing system for time series data. RRDtool can be easily integrated in ...
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Dataset insights software
This is the sort of think that the python data exploration and visualization tool chain Pandas is excellent for - you will have to do a little exploring of the data yourself but you will be amazed at ...
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Spreadsheet software analog whitch separates Data from Presentation
There is a python based spreadsheet pyspread that is able to use python code directly in each cell, in fact each cell can contain a complete python program, that you might like to take a look at.
But ...
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Android app to show what apps/processes are currently using data
Since there was no answer posted yet, I decided to include it anyway.
Currently the best option of achieving that is using Network Connections as Izzy rightly suggested (and I happen to use the same ...
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Filesharing between two Windows 10 devices in different networks
Ok, from my understanding you want to share easily transfer files between your 2 machines, from a same network which is ( indirectly connected), but have you checked if the networks use the same ...
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How do you create a parent-child tree with table/excel data?
I solved, perhaps, slightly different case with tree representation on Confluence pages with https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GVIZ/Digraph+Macro plugin that can take a table as a source.
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Windows app that aids in making "ORDERED LISTS"?
I found a cool web-app that dose exactly what I am asking, is free and doesn't even require registration... I hope it helps anyone else looking at this question. - http://listmoz.com
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Field Data Collection and Automation
My company recently started using OFSpro for exactly what you are saying you are in need of. It is a great software for managing field services. The other thing we love about it is that they have an ...
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Software to plot and pan/zoom to analyse
If your data was captured at regular intervals and you can convert it into this format:
{
"Channels" : [
// pressure
{
"Coupling" : 1,
"Samples" : [
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"Hacker" utility: space-efficient embedding a file into JPEG file container
Although this is not a solution for JPEG containers, this illustrates a solution that will work with free Amazon Prime photo storage using a BMP container.
"Japanese user YDKK has developed a tool to ...
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Limiting mobile data usage by application
I cannot give you a single recommendation here, as I have nothing completely fitting your requirements. But there are several approaches you could take, each requiring a specialized app:
Using an ...
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iPhone app to log, graph, store and export arbitrary user entered data
I think Pryv may meet most of your requirements.
Main features
Log what you want
You can log data (numeric or not) and see numeric as graphs. I also used as a diary for one time.
Share what you ...
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Easy, Automatic REST API for a SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) Database or DaaS
I've tried a couple of solutions for this before, including writing my own Node.js server which redirect calls to a MongoDB table and stores responses as objects. It's easy and simple, but you lack ...
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Where to find free live streaming data, any format?
See my (barely on-topic) question JSON test server with regularly updating data
The accepted answer works for me.
[Update] In fact, I found something which I consider to be far superior to the ...
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