January 2023 Summaries

Hex has integrated VegaFusion into its data visualization product, allowing for interactive data visualizations at a much higher scale. VegaFusion pushes aggregation for charts down to server-side operations, enabling operations on large datasets while minimizing the amount of data pushed to the client and maintaining full frontend interactivity. The company has also relicensed VegaFusion to be more permissive (to BSD-3 from AGPL) in hopes of spurring creativity and unlocking its power for others in the community, including competitors.

Today, Hex introduces Components, a new feature that allows teams to create reusable groups of cells for improved collaboration and consistency in data workflows. Components bring the DRY model from software development to analytics, enabling editors to publish new components and import existing ones into projects. Changes made to a component can be propagated down into projects that rely on it, allowing teams to build up a centralized repository of consistent logic. Components are now available on all paid plans of Hex, with varying limits based on the plan.