obsuy

Obsuy is an open-source platform and data-visualization framework designed to support collaborative data analysis and reporting. It provides a modular architecture that lets users import datasets, craft interactive dashboards, and share insights in real time. The project emphasizes reproducibility and privacy, offering versioned datasets, access controls, and reversible data transformations.

Obsuy was announced in 2020 by the Obsuy Foundation, a nonprofit founded to promote transparent data practices. It has since evolved through community contributions and academic partnerships, with releases focusing on interoperability with common data formats and integration with external analysis tools.

The platform comprises a core server, a web-based client, and a growing ecosystem of plugins. The core provides data management, authentication, and task orchestration, while the client offers a dashboard builder, notebook-style analysis panes, and collaboration features. The architecture supports extensibility through plugins that add data connectors, visualizations, and processing modules.

Data in Obsuy is modeled using tables and relationships, with schema-aware importers for CSV, JSON, or relational exports. Users can create project-wide notebooks, publish dashboards, schedule data-refresh jobs, and invite collaborators with role-based permissions. The system emphasizes reproducible workflows by enabling versioning of analyses and dashboards, as well as the sharing of exact project configurations.

Obsuy is distributed under a permissive open-source license and governed by a community consortium. Development is driven by proposals, code reviews, and community events, with emphasis on cross-project interoperability and accessibility. In educational and research settings, Obsuy has been noted for enabling rapid prototyping of analyses and collaborative work, while ongoing improvements address performance and documentation.