Dayton Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting
Details
Presentations/Topics:
Main topic: Open Source BI
There are many open source tools available for turning raw data into meaningful reports, dashboards, and business insights — from familiar spreadsheet techniques to full-featured online analytics platforms. At this meeting, Ben Kendrick will present an overview of several categories of Business Intelligence (BI) tools and demonstrate practical examples of each.
The session will explore spreadsheet-based analysis using LibreOffice Calc and Base, pixel-perfect reporting with Jaspersoft Studio, database management with DBeaver, and web-based BI platforms such as Metabase, along with discussion of other open source options. Whether you are managing business data, building reports, or just curious about the current state of open source BI software, this presentation will provide a useful introduction and hands-on demonstrations of tools that can help make sense of your data.
As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.
Where:
Wright State University
Russ Engineering Center, Room 302 (or 348)
(Room right across the hall from the elevators.)
We will also have an online presence via the Zoom web conferencing service.
If joining a meeting from a Windows PC, the Zoom client will automatically download and attempt to install. For those using Linux, you can download the free (not Free) Zoom client from this page. It’s available for a variety of distributions.
For those attending in person, we will most likely adjourn to Milano’s afterward for food and socializing.
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The Dayton Linux Users Group, a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Dayton Microcomputer Association, meets the 3rd Thursday of the month Online.
At our monthly meetings, we may have one or more presentation topics planned, or we simply discuss news and projects of interest to our members. (We’re working on planning presentations for more of our meetings, and could use some volunteers — hint, hint!). Our attendees include anyone from experienced Linux system administrators to those who have been hearing about Linux and want to learn more.