aid: visualization name: Visualization kind: topic description: >- An index and topic collection covering data visualization, charts, dashboards, business intelligence (BI), and reporting APIs. Data visualization platforms turn raw data into charts, graphs, and interactive dashboards that drive insight, decision-making, and storytelling. This collection includes enterprise BI platforms like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Qlik Sense, Sisense, and Domo; modern cloud BI and embedded analytics like Looker Studio, Amazon QuickSight, and Metabase; open-source dashboarding and viz like Apache Superset, Grafana, Kibana, Perses, SigNoz, and OpenObserve; charting libraries and frameworks like Matplotlib, Streamlit, Apache Zeppelin; product analytics and observability dashboards like Mixpanel, PostHog, Amplitude, Datadog, Adobe Analytics, and Keen; and architecture and diagramming tools like Lucidchart, alongside the API Evangelist's own subway-map style visualizations. type: Index image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Data Visualization - Charts - Dashboards - Business Intelligence - Reporting - Analytics - Subway Map tags_raw: - Data Visualization - Charts - Dashboards - BI - Business Intelligence - Reporting - Analytics - Subway Map url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/visualization/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-05-19' modified: '2026-05-19' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: [] network: - 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name: Matplotlib url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/matplotlib/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Metabase url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metabase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Microsoft Power BI url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-power-bi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Mixpanel url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mixpanel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: OpenObserve url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openobserve/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Perses url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perses/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: PostHog url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/posthog/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Qlik Sense url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qlik-sense/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Qlikview url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qlikview/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Retool url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/retool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: SAP BI url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sap-bi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: SigNoz url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signoz/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Sisense url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sisense/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Streamlit url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/streamlit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml - name: Tableau url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tableau/refs/heads/main/apis.yml common: - type: Portal url: https://apievangelist.com - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/api-evangelist - type: Features data: - name: Chart and Graph Rendering description: Visualization APIs accept data and configuration and return rendered charts, graphs, or images, including bar, line, pie, scatter, heatmap, and geospatial chart types. - name: Interactive Dashboards description: Dashboard platforms expose APIs to define, embed, and refresh interactive dashboards composed of multiple charts, KPIs, filters, and drill-downs against live data sources. - name: Data Source Connectivity description: BI and visualization platforms connect to databases, warehouses, files, and APIs as data sources, exposing APIs to manage connections, queries, datasets, and refresh schedules. - name: Embedded Analytics description: Visualization vendors provide embedded analytics SDKs and APIs that let product teams ship dashboards and reports inside their own applications, white-labeled and authenticated. - name: Query and Semantic Layer description: Modern BI exposes a semantic and metrics layer through APIs so charts, dashboards, and AI agents share consistent definitions of dimensions, measures, and joins. - name: Report Generation and Scheduling description: Reporting APIs render PDFs, images, and snapshots of dashboards and reports, schedule deliveries, and distribute them through email, Slack, and webhooks. - name: Architecture and Diagram Visualization description: Diagramming and graph tools like Lucidchart, Graphviz, Mermaid, and Cytoscape expose APIs to render service maps, dependency graphs, and API subway-map style visuals. - type: UseCases data: - name: Executive Dashboards and KPI Reporting description: Companies build executive dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or Domo that surface revenue, pipeline, retention, and operations KPIs against live warehouse data. - name: Embedded Customer-Facing Analytics description: SaaS products embed Sisense, Looker, Metabase, or Knowi dashboards inside their apps so customers can analyze their own data without leaving the product. - name: Operational and Observability Dashboards description: Engineering teams visualize metrics, logs, and traces in Grafana, Kibana, Perses, SigNoz, and OpenObserve to monitor systems, alert on incidents, and investigate outages. - name: Product Analytics and Behavior Visualization description: Product teams use Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, and Adobe Analytics dashboards to visualize funnels, retention, cohorts, and feature usage across web and mobile. - name: Data Science Notebooks and Charting description: Data scientists generate charts and exploratory visualizations in Matplotlib, Streamlit, and Apache Zeppelin notebooks, then publish dashboards or reports for stakeholders. - name: API and Architecture Visualization description: Platform teams render API surface, service dependency, and architecture diagrams using Lucidchart, Graphviz, Mermaid, and API Evangelist style subway-map visuals. - name: Financial and Web3 Analytics Dashboards description: Analysts publish dashboards in Dune Analytics, Domo, and Power BI for on-chain crypto activity, financial reporting, and operational performance across business units. - type: Integrations data: - name: Tableau description: Enterprise BI platform with rich interactive dashboards, embedded analytics, and a REST API for content, data sources, jobs, and user management. - name: Microsoft Power BI description: Microsoft's enterprise BI service with desktop, cloud, and embedded experiences, plus a REST API for datasets, reports, dashboards, and workspaces. - name: Google Looker description: Modeled BI platform with a semantic LookML layer, dashboards, and a REST API for managing queries, dashboards, and embedded analytics. - name: Grafana description: Open-source dashboard platform for time-series, metrics, logs, and traces with a HTTP API for dashboards, datasources, alerts, and organizations. - name: Apache Superset description: Open-source data exploration and dashboarding platform with a REST API for charts, dashboards, datasets, and SQL Lab queries. - name: Metabase description: Open-source BI tool focused on simple question-driven analytics with an API for questions, dashboards, collections, and embedding. - name: Sisense description: Embedded analytics and BI platform with APIs for dashboards, widgets, data models, and white-labeled embeddable analytics. - name: Domo description: Cloud BI platform with APIs for datasets, cards, pages, users, and a strong focus on executive dashboards and storytelling. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com humanURL: https://apievangelist.com