Ask HN: Does anyone's job involve coding "reports?"
By "report," I mean some sort of chart derived from an aggregate query in one or more databases.
It's not a main part of my job but I am occasionally asked to produce a report of some sort. Usually satisfied by a short python script, a cron job to invoke it, and if the chart isn't trivial, maybe the script invokes R or something to produce the image.
I'm thinking of reviving a dynamic data/chart thing I wrote a long time ago. Basically, it builds reports for you dynamically when you click on a bar charts, so you can answer questions like: How many hits across hours? Okay, so how many hits by products in the 1:00 hour? etc.