Hey HN, I am Alex. I am open sourcing Data Studio, a lightweight data exploration IDE in your browser that runs locally.

Try it: https://local.dataspren.com (no account needed, runs locally)

More information: https://github.com/dataspren-analytics/data-studio

I love working with data (Postgres, SQL, DuckDB, DBT, Iceberg, ...). I always wanted a data exploration tool that runs in my browser and just works. Without any infra or privacy concerns (DuckDB UI came quite close).

Features:

  - Data Notebooks
    - SQL cells work like DBT models (they materialize to views)
    - Use Python functions inside of SQL queries
    - Use DB views directly in Python as dataframes
  - Transform Excel files with SQL
  - You can open .parquet, .csv, .xlsx, .json files nicely formatted

Happy to hear about your feedback <3

[delayed]