At my work, I made an interactive dashboard in Excel, which I weekly use to generate graphs/reports. Generating and exporting the graphs cost me a lot of time (1 day a week). So for me, it would be a lot more efficient to have something like a secure web page in which users get their graphs automatically at any moment of time.
Since we have not many programmers at work and I probably have to make more reports in my career, I think it would be beneficial to learn how to make something like this myself. So I am thinking about learning software with which I can make something myself. I am not a programmer (I'm more into traditional market research and business analytics with using software like Excel and SPSS), but I am not afraid learning something new. The problem is, that there are so many tools and languages on the market, and I have no idea which one would be the best to learn. Does anybody have any suggestions? I read about R (and already followed a beginners tutorial, it looks promising), rCharts (not sure what that exactly is), Shiny, Julia (looks difficult to me), Javascript and dozens of libraries like d3.js (also looks difficult to me).
Since we have not many programmers at work and I probably have to make more reports in my career, I think it would be beneficial to learn how to make something like this myself. So I am thinking about learning software with which I can make something myself. I am not a programmer (I'm more into traditional market research and business analytics with using software like Excel and SPSS), but I am not afraid learning something new. The problem is, that there are so many tools and languages on the market, and I have no idea which one would be the best to learn. Does anybody have any suggestions? I read about R (and already followed a beginners tutorial, it looks promising), rCharts (not sure what that exactly is), Shiny, Julia (looks difficult to me), Javascript and dozens of libraries like d3.js (also looks difficult to me).