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Datastringer is a tool designed for journalists who work with data and code. It helps users collect, organize, and analyze information for investigative reporting and news stories. The tool is built to support the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Datastringer, a tool for hacker-journalists launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A simple way to write, maintain, and share documentation

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I started building Datastripes as part of my thesis, trying to answer a simple question: How can non-technical teams turn raw data into insights without relying on developers or BI tools? What began as research has now grown into a working product, built by a small team, focused on solving that exact problem. Datastripes is a no-code platform for creating dashboards and data visualizations in minutes: no SQL, no setup, no friction. What it does: Connects to CSVs, Google Sheets, or APIs Drag-and-drop dashboard builder Shareable via public links or embed Fully browser-based We’re…

    Jan 2026 · datastripes.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi there, Burak here. I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr (https://github.com/bruin-data/ingestr) I did build quite a few data warehouses both for the companies I worked at, as well as for consultancy projects. One of the more common pain points I observed was that everyone had to rebuild the same data ingestion bit over and over again, and each in different ways: - some wrote code for the ingestion from scratch to various degrees - some used off-the-shelf data ingestion tools like Fivetran / Airbyte I have always disliked both of these approaches,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An all-purpose tool for data journalism

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The best ideas are both simple and outlandish.

    2012 · normansoven.com · its alternatives →

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    Code based data manipulation tool for text, arrays, and JSON

    2023 · sloth.sellersew.com · its alternatives →

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    Secure Vault for Customer PII/PHI/PCI/KYC Records. Contribute to securitybunker/databunker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fastest way: csv/xls to dashboard report, no ChatGPT upload

    2023 · datasquirrel.ai · its alternatives →

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    What's in your data? Extract schema, statistics and entities from datasets - capitalone/DataProfiler

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Swiss army knife of data examination and manipulation - kstenerud/bo

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Manage your entire data labeling workflow with a single tool

    2020 · datasaur.ai · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2023 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Webpecker▲120

    Data scraper & analyzer

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    A Hacker News lookalike written in Python/Django, powering https://news.python.sc - sebst/pythonic-news

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I am Maria, solo founder of DataQA (https://dataqa.ai/), a tool to search and label documents for various NLP tasks (e.g. entity extraction, entity linking, etc). I have worked as a data scientist and ML engineer for the better part of a decade, and over that time have specialised mainly in applications involving natural language processing (NLP). One of the key questions I have always had at the back of my mind is whether my time was well spent. Whenever I spent more time on feature engineering or trying different models, I always wondered whether I would get better…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Explore GitHub live data in natural language

    2023 · ossinsight.io · its alternatives →

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    DataSpeeder 2 is a simple little database browser for non-technical users that gives bosses, marketing, and support teams a simple way to search, view, and edit MySQL & Oracle records – no coding, no scripting, just point it at your database and it works.

    2020 · dataspeeder.com · its alternatives →

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