Kepler.gl

by 9wocon 7/4/2025, 1:58 PMwith 19 comments

by loicsaintrochon 7/4/2025, 4:41 PM

Nice to see kepler.gl getting some love here!

Funny enough, I just released an open-source, opinionated map editor built on top of kepler.gl with their DuckDB integration — yesterday! If anyone's curious to see how it all fits together, feel free to check it out here: https://github.com/mountayaapp/insight-editor.

by pininjaon 7/4/2025, 7:13 PM

It’d be great to have contributors join our collaborator summit [0] in the Seattle area this fall!

It’s a free event, supported by the OpenJS Foundation, kepler.gl’s host foundation.

We’re expecting to have a session from Shan, the creator of Kepler.gl as well as Ilya, the creator of SQLRooms. We’re still accepting session proposals as well [1]!

[0] https://deck.gl/events/seattle-summit-2025/ [1] https://github.com/openjs-foundation/summit/issues/450

by adeptimaon 7/4/2025, 6:50 PM

Foursquare has another open source project worth noting on DuckDB - SQLRooms

https://sqlrooms.org/

“Build data-centric apps with DuckDB An Open Source React Framework for Single-Node Data Analytics powered by DuckDB”

by qwertoxon 7/4/2025, 9:07 PM

Which is powered by deck.gl, also a very nice library.

https://deck.gl/

by aidanlisteron 7/4/2025, 3:33 PM

Oh so exciting!!!

I’ve been looking for an alternative to CARTO, their sales reps are awful and their pricing is wildly expensive and opaque.

by zkmonon 7/4/2025, 9:40 PM

As someone to whom these kind of awesome visualizations are often presented, let me tell you something. Real decisions do not depend on these nice stuff. I sometimes feel sorry for the folks who spend great effort in producing these, like a children amusing themselves with the great sand castles they built. A lot of times, simple text or numbers could also have more effect on the decisions.

by ppageon 7/5/2025, 2:32 AM

i love kepler.gl! regularly use it just to visualise trips, good to see it gaining visibility

by xyston 7/4/2025, 5:21 PM

The marketing page needs some work on mobile but otherwise a cool library.

Export your phones GPS pings and then use this to render a heat map of the most frequently used locations :)