How different is this from a Jupyter Notebook? https://jupyter.org/

This seems like a simplified version that could reach it's limit pretty soon.

Very. Evidence is oriented towards data teams who are building and maintaining large reporting and analysis applications for businesses. Jupyter is better suited to one off analysis.

For example:

Access to the underlying web framework (svelte kit) so you can use svelte’s templating (loops, conditionals), css, and (if you want) client side js in your reports

Works with CI/CD out of the box. Deploy to vercel, netlify, your own infra.

SQL, not python, as the main language so your reporting can be maintained and extended by most data analysts.

There’s a lot more we’re working on to extend the differences. Internally we refer to the two buckets as “best of BI” and “best of web frameworks”, if that gives you some indication of where we’re headed.

Here’s another discussion along these lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28305784

> Jupyter is better suited to one off analysis. > Works with CI/CD out of the box. Deploy to vercel, netlify, your own infra.

Jupyter is suited for whatever you want to do with it. Voila exists to enable the use case of re-generating notebooks on a CI/CD system: https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila

Anyways, seems like the templating is more powerful than the one being offered by Jupyter Notebooks.

Good luck and much success with it :)